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Crowd researchers make pilgrimage safer

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The science of pedestrian motion meets the annual Hajj in Mecca.

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  1. Helbing D., et al. preprint available at http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0701203

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  1. Philip Ball
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Ball, P. Crowd researchers make pilgrimage safer. Nature (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/news070115-13

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