Mass Event Monitoring by Using Mobile Cell Information: A Case Study for Budapest at the Celebration of the State Foundation Day

Abstract

In case of open-air mass events, such as festivals, concerts, huge amount of people are concentrated on a relatively small territory. To guarantee the public safety and optimize the evacuation plan in such situations, the authorities need an effective tool to estimate the crowd size and monitor the mass movement patterns in real time. As a possible method, our case study utilize the TELCO mobile communication dataset concerning on the downtown of Budapest during the public ceremonies and festivities of State Foundtaion Day in the year 2014.