PLoS ONE (Jan 2021)

A high-density crowd state judgment model based on entropy theory.

  • Guomin Zhao,
  • Cong Li,
  • Guangji Xu,
  • Falong He,
  • Jing Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255468
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 9
p. e0255468

Abstract

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A high-density crowd state is prone to cause large-scale crowd stampede accidents that seriously threaten the people's security and property. The key to preventing crowd congestion is to accurately predict the location and time of crowd events, particularly when there is a high density of people. In this paper, the entropy theory is used to characterize the state of a crowded system. The theoretical entropy Sr and the actual entropy S of the crowd system are obtained according to the area occupied by the different crowd state The maximum entropy value and the actual entropy value under different conditions of the system are compared to judge the state of crowded extent. The results show that the model is practical and effective. According to the situation of the crowd, different management and evacuation measures are considered to prevent the occurrence of crowd accidents.