In the ebb and flow of crowded crosswalks, a surprising pattern emerges: people can naturally form neat lanes of movement.

with people naturally forming orderly lanes as they cross the road, smoothly passing those coming from the opposite direction ...

Mathematicians studied the flow of human crowds and developed a way to predict when pedestrian paths will transition from ...

In this way, a crowd can spontaneously organize into regular ... So far, we've focused on the simplest scenarios where people cross the road, but if we take into account the specifics of a ...

"If you think about the whole crowd flowing, rather than individuals, you can use fluid-like descriptions," Bacik explains. "It's this art of averaging, where, even if some people may cross more ...