The annual Hajj
The annual Hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca involves over two million people. This project aims to build a cognitive model for the behavioral factors that affect the Hajj crowd's movement during different stages of Hajj. A cognitive model will add psychological validity to future Hajj crowds computer models by providing behavioural factors shown to be important.
Project justification
- Raising crowd management efficiency in light of the plan to increase the number of Hajj and Umrah visitors in some sacred sites with limited capacity.
- Non-compliance with the instructions creates unsafe crowds leading to not using the available capacity.
- Large cultural diversity makes it challenging to communicate and predict crowd behavior.