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faster-is-slower effect: a standalone construct

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Transportation engineering

the finding that people rushing to exit can clog a doorway so that evacuation becomes slower.

In transportation engineering, faster-is-slower effect refers to the finding that people rushing to exit can clog a doorway so that evacuation becomes slower. This meaning comes from Helbing (2000) in Nature.[1]

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References

Helbing, D., Farkas, I., & Vicsek, T. (2000). Simulating dynamical features of escape panic. Nature, 407(6803), 487-490. https://doi.org/10.1038/35035023

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