DEM Associate Professor Ali Asgary was quoted in a Scientific American article, “” where he discussed crowd management following Seoul’s deadly crowd crush on October 29.
“In a situation like this, it is hard to say exactly what went wrong. There are typically investigations planned and conducted after events like this to go and point out what went wrong in detail,” Asgary said.
Read the in Scientific American.
Preventative Strategies
Professor Asgary was also featured in an article for Yahoo! News, titled “” where he discussed how events like this can occur and how they can be avoided.
“Like many other disasters, crowd disasters are for the most part human-made and can be avoided with planning, management, awareness, compliance, training, and education,” Asgary said.
Read the on Yahoo! News.