Tages-Anzeiger: Making Züri Fäscht safer with predictions

Tages-Anzeiger shows how ETH researchers use predictive models at Züri Fäscht 2013 to improve safety for hundreds of thousands of visitors — early work that informs today’s antavi crowd management platform.

At the centre stands the idea of detecting bottlenecks and critical densities early on, based on anonymised app data and observations from the field. Exactly this logic — live operating picture plus look-ahead — remains the core of the operational tool with which antavi today supports organisers and emergency services.

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