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Public Transportation Crowd Control
Operations research studies, How are crowds like water? Large group
among other thing, the logistical of people move and interact in much the same
elements of scheduling, vehicle as fluids.
capacity, and routes. • The movement of every human
• Every day there are around depends on the movement of all
50,000 commercial airline others in their immediate surrounding.
flights. All planes all luggage This is similar to the way in which the
every crew and all passengers motion of water and air molecules
have to be at the right place depends on the motion of
at the right time and planes need surrounding molecules: fluid
to be serviced and refueled. dynamics.
Most importantly planes can’t
crash when arriving at any of the
busy airports. This is an
incredibly complex logistic
challenge impossible without
mathematics and Operations
research.
Crowd Control
Public Transportation
ZANNIE I. GAMUYAO, MSM UNIT 1.5 Applications of Mathematics
Assistant Professor 1 in the World
Department of Arts and Sciences
