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This paper presents the developed concept of management and control to the pedestrian flow movements at Jamarat in the regular annual pilgrimage to Makkah (Hajj) season in Saudi Arabia. Every year, 3 to 4 millions of pilgrims perform their rituals in the course of extensively high restrictions, in the midst of a climax of limited/narrow space and time constraint. The Jamarat where pilgrims gather to perform a ritual stoning of pillars symbolizing the devil as part of the Hajj. The new Jamarat leveled building replaced the old ones. The project objective is to prevent crowd panic and to minimize the risk of crowd disasters. Management and control of pedestrian group movement to and/or inside Jamarat leveled building and area, using new experimental knowledge methodologies observed from the science of crowd dynamics, throughout anticipation and analysis of the pilgrim flow from low crowd density to extremely high crowd density, accompanied, attended, and escorted with an insider real-time-life video- scrutiny/observation/analysis.
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Bosta, S.A. (2011). Crowd Management Based on Scientific Research to Prevent Crowd Panic and Disasters. In: Peacock, R., Kuligowski, E., Averill, J. (eds) Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9725-8_66
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