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The least crowded path: where to start?

par De Cock, Laure;Treille De Grandsaigne, Guillaume ;De Doncker, Philippe ;Vandeviver, Christophe;Verstokt, Steven;Van de Weghe, Nico
Référence (13-18 August, 2023: Cape Town, South Africa), Proc. of the 31st. International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2023)
Publication A Paraître, 2023-08

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By 2050 68% of the world’s population will live in urban areas, but while our cities become more crowded, they also become smarter. This means that we will be able to use smart technologies to tackle the challenges of urbanization. One example of these smart technologies are crowd tracking sensors, such as cameras, cell phone traffic monitoring, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth and radio frequency signals. More and more cities invest in these sensors to monitor pedestrian flows for economic purposes (e.g., the VLOED project in the cities of Ghent and Bruges, Belgium1), but also for safety during events (e.g., during the tour of Flanders2). This last one in particular is very important as overcrowding can lead to hazardous situations, the recent tragedy during the Halloween festivities in Seoul reminded us of that 3. Imagine that the people in Seoul had accurate information on the crowdedness that night, that their route planner would take this into account and would have guided them along the least crowded route, could the crowd crush have been avoided this way? These are the fundamental questions that this research project would like to address in the upcoming years.