Called "angular spread," this parameter describes the number of people walking in different directions. If a crowd has a relatively small angular spread, this means that most pedestrians walk in ...

Massive crowds in Morrow overwhelmed the venue, forcing last-minute changes for safety during the monks’ Walk for Peace stop. Attendees and officials described the gathering as a rare moment of unity ...

RICHMOND — Thousands of people mobbed the streets Monday near the State Capitol, police lights flashing, voices ringing out. But it wasn’t politics that brought so many onto sidewalks piled with ice ...

Thousands of people lined sidewalks and filled the lawn of a south Charlotte recreation center Wednesday night to greet Buddhist monks walking for peace from Texas who traveled through Rock Hill ...

Mathematicians studied the flow of human crowds and developed a way to predict when pedestrian paths will transition from orderly to entangled. Their findings may help inform the design of public ...