Quantifying crowd size with mobile phone and Twitter data
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Quantifying crowd size with mobile phone and Twitter data
Being able to infer the number of people in a specific area is of extreme importance for the avoidance of crowd disasters and to facilitate emergency evacuations. Here, using a football stadium and an airport as case studies, we present evidence of a strong relationship between the number of people in restricted areas and activity recorded by mobile phone providers and the online service Twitte...
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عنوان ژورنال: Royal Society Open Science
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2054-5703
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150162