In many dangerous crowd situations, the combination of high density (more than 8 persons per m²) and movement within the crowd results in strong pressure on the human body and increases the likelihood of life-threatening falls. The research group

• studies the collective dynamics resulting from pushing;

• studies under which circumstances do people in a crowd start to push intentionally;

• develops AI tools to automatic detect pushing in crowds and

• develops agent based models to model spatio-temporal dynamics of pushing propagation in crowds.