Urban Crowd Steering: An Overview

Borean, Claudio; Giannantonio, Roberta; Mamei, Marco; Mana, Dario; Sassi, Andrea; Zambonelli, Franco

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-23237-9_13

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“…Crowd steering to prevent dangerous situations and support evacuation plans [29] can be enforced via several techniques (digital signage, voice announcements, or human "steerers" in the crowd) and strategies [30]. However, we emphasize that the same techniques can be adopted in urban environments or crowded buildings simply to prevent uncomfortable situations or inefficient usage of space.…”

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Sensing and Forecasting Crowd Distribution in Smart Cities: Potentials and Approaches

Cecaj

Lippi

Mamei

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The possibility of sensing and predicting the movements of crowds in modern cities is of fundamental importance for improving urban planning, urban mobility, urban safety, and tourism activities. However, it also introduces several challenges at the level of sensing technologies and data analysis. The objective of this survey is to overview: (i) the many potential application areas of crowd sensing and prediction; (ii) the technologies that can be exploited to sense crowd along with their potentials and limitations; (iii) the data analysis techniques that can be effectively used to forecast crowd distribution. Finally, the article tries to identify open and promising research challenges.

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Sensing and Forecasting Crowd Distribution in Smart Cities: Potentials and Approaches

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Mamei

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“…For instance, coordinating the movement of people in dangerous situations such as in overcrowded spaces requires timely, co-ordinated adaptation, since it is easy for individual and small-scale deviations to escalate into global chaos, leading to disaster. This problem is tackled by crowd engineering approaches, which are often founded on CAS paradigms [32], [58].…”

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On the Social Implications of Collective Adaptive Systems

Bucchiarone

D'Angelo

Pianini

et al. 2020

IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag.

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Many Collective Adaptive Systems (CASs) exist in nature: think of ant colonies, where large collectives of ants operate autonomously but interact with other ants and the environment to provide resilient global behaviours that sustain their colony. Following scientific studies that were aimed at understanding and predicting the evolution of these systems, and fueled by technological advances, research has started to investigate CAS engineering: the methods, tools, and techniques for building CASs. This naturally leads to a vision where collectives of humans and computational elements, situated both in the digital and physical worlds, collaborate to give rise to "intelligent" collective behaviour supporting novel kinds of applications and services. Humans can be involved in two ways: both as users and as components of the CAS, in the sense that human behaviours and limitations are often integral to the system description. This has significant social implications that need to be considered by CAS researchers: in this paper, we share a discussion that took place between some experts thinking about CAS engineering, focusing on the social implication of CASs and related open research challenges. We hope that this provides a useful context for future research projects, research grant proposals, and research directions.

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“… Urban Crowd Steering. In crowd steering [11], collective movements of people are tracked and movements are encouraged via mobile app advice or other mechanisms. The reasons for steering the crowd might be for emergency evacuation, guided tours, safe movement of people during large rallies and concerts, regulating the use of spaces or for commercial purposes (e.g., steer crowds to move through certain businesses areas).…”

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Crowd-Powered Sensing and Actuation in Smart Cities: Current Issues and Future Directions

Wang

Zhang

et al. 2019

IEEE Wireless Commun.

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With the advent of seamless connection of human, machine, and smart things, there is an emerging trend to leverage the power of crowds (e.g., citizens, mobile devices, and smart things) to monitor what is happening in a city, understand how the city is evolving, and further take actions to enable better quality of life, which is referred to as Crowd-Powered Smart City (CPSC). In this article, we provide a literature review for CPSC and identify future research opportunities. Specifically, we first define the concepts with typical CPSC applications. Then, we present the main characteristics of CPSC and further highlight the research issues. In the end, we point out existing limitations which can inform and guide future research directions.

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Urban Crowd Steering: An Overview

Cited by 6 publications

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Sensing and Forecasting Crowd Distribution in Smart Cities: Potentials and Approaches

Sensing and Forecasting Crowd Distribution in Smart Cities: Potentials and Approaches

On the Social Implications of Collective Adaptive Systems

Crowd-Powered Sensing and Actuation in Smart Cities: Current Issues and Future Directions

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