About the Authors

Thomas Chadefaux

thomas.chadefaux@gess.ethz.ch

Affiliation Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Dirk Helbing

Affiliation Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TC DH. Performed the experiments: TC. Analyzed the data: TC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TC DH. Wrote the paper: TC DH.