Crowd Dynamics Ltd - EPC Courses

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Public Safety in the Built and Complex Environment 9th - 11th July
Crowd Dynamics Workshop 13th - 18th Aug
Festivals and Mass Gatherings 15th - 17th Oct
Advanced Crowd Dynamics Workshop 20th - 22nd Oct
Festivals and Mass Gatherings 3rd - 5th Nov
Crowd Dynamics Workshop 17th - 19th Nov
2009
Festivals and Mass Gatherings (Easingwold) 7th - 9th Jan
Crowd Dynamics Workshop 16th - 18th Feb
Public Safety in the Built and Complex Environment 18th - 20th Feb
Festivals and Mass Gatherings 23rd - 25th Feb
See below for course description and outlines
Crowd Dynamics Workshop
Who Should Attend:
Those who design for, plan or manage the movement of people in sport, entertainment, shopping, transport or similar environments. It will benefit site or venue operational managers, stewarding and security organisations, police officers with crowd management responsibilities, architects working in the complex and built environment and local authority officers with licensing, planning, building control or leisure management responsibilities
Aim:
To develop greater awareness of how individuals and crowds react and behave in the space available at places of public assembly, and to explore the application of modelling techniques and tools to enhance public safety.
Objectives:
By the end of this event you will be able to:
Apply guidance on the management of crowd flow and movement with regard to a range of places of public assembly.
Apply risk assessment techniques to the area of crowd management.
Recognise the potential benefits of using appropriate crowd simulation tools in designing, planning, and managing spaces where people gather.
Create models summarising crowd flow to help with planning and crowd management activities for access, ingress, circulation and egress.
Pre-Requisites:
A basic understanding of the content and application of the various guidance documents relating public safety is assumed. This may be confirmed by attending the Introduction to Crowd and Public Safety course as preparation.
Advanced Crowd Dynamics
Who Should Attend:
For those who design for, plan or manage the movement of people in sport, entertainment, shopping, transport or similar environments. This event will benefit site or venue operational managers, stewarding and security organisations, police officers with crowd management responsibilities, architects of environments used by large numbers of people and local authority officers with licensing, planning, building control or leisure management responsibilities.
Aim:
To develop your understanding of crowd dynamics and crowd modelling techniques applied to your own case study material.
Objectives:
By the end of this event you will be able to:
Explain the essentials of crowd modelling in terms of ingress, circulation and egress.
Describe the principles of behavioural-based safety in places of public assembly.
Create crowd dynamics models to analyse crowd dynamics based on spreadsheets and queuing models.
Integrate models of behaviour and crowd dynamics to support a comprehensive approach to crowd safety planning and management.
Pre-Requisites:
You must complete the ‘Crowd Dynamics’ course prior to attending this event (or have equivalent practical experience). A basic understanding of MS Office/Excel spreadsheets is essential. You will be required to provide your own laptop with software installed, as well as information relating to your own crowd dynamics issues – such as plans, site maps and related data. This will allow the course to focus on your own current challenges and projects, and create solutions that can be applied back in the workplace.

Simulation and Modelling in Crowd Dynamics
Who Should Attend:
For those who design for, plan or manage the movement of people in sport, entertainment, shopping, transport or similar environments. This event will benefit site or venue operational managers, stewarding and security organisations, police officers with crowd management responsibilities, architects of environments used by large numbers of people and local authority officers with licensing, planning, building control or leisure management responsibilities.
Outline of the course
Crowd Dynamics Ltd have developed and deployed many different types of crowd models from evacuation analysis to the real-time command and control communications system for the wide area evacuation of Canary Wharf and the decision support systems for managing the crowd arriving to the London New Year Fireworks (2006/7).

The reason why this course has been developed relates to the unique nature of many events/sites/situations. The bespoke software approach is expensive and Crowd Dynamics Ltd have, over the years, developed a method of teaching delegates how to build and maintain their own crowd dynamics models more cost-effectively.

On this course the delegates must bring their own computer, on which samples will be installed for the delegates to develop beyond the workshops.

Aim:

To teach delegates how to build and maintain their own crowd dynamics models.

Objectives:

By the end of the course you will be able to:
Simulate crowd behaviour using a wide range of techniques (network analysis, flow modelling, queueing models and agent-based models) using computers.
Apply a crowd dynamics model to a case study drawn form your own work situation.
Develop a real-time communication and decision-support model for your own case studies.
Pre-Requisites:
You must complete the ‘Advanced Crowd Dynamics’ course prior to attending this event (or have equivalent practical experience). A basic understanding of MS Office/Excel spreadsheets is essential. You will be required to provide your own laptop with software installed, as well as information relating to your own crowd dynamics issues – such as plans, site maps and related data. This will allow the course to focus on your own current challenges and projects, and create solutions that can be applied back in the workplace.