Case Study
Crowd and Pilgrimage Control in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
The area around Ka’aba gets very crowded at Hajj and Umrah, raising the need for improvements through crowd control and design modifications. Pe - destrian simulation is one means to analyze these large flows and evaluate respective design modifi - cations. Eng. Yasser Talal Matbouli and Eng. Majed Attiea Al-Zahrani of the Industrial Engineering De- partment, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, con- ducted a simulation study of Tawaf area wit