نظام ذكي لاتخاذ القرار في إدارة الحشود للحجاج عند جسر الجمرات

Abstract

The Hajj is the annual pilgrimage to Makkah (Mecca), Saudi Arabia, and it is considered to be the largest mass gathering in the world. Hajj event, Olympic games, or any such mass gatherings, mark the participation of hundreds of thousands of people, which often lead to overcrowding problems, tragic incidents, and terrible disasters, resulting loss of a great number of lives and serious injuries to the participants. The problems become more critical, especially during emergency situations, such as sudden overcrowding, fire or riots, creating secondary damages. Consequently, and with the growing number of population of the world, maintaining the public order in the crowded areas during specific events is of great concern and importance. If crowd management is not drastically improved, the trend of tragic accidents will continue to rise, and new crowd accidents may happen. A pivotal management and control of overcrowded areas is an urgent task, to ensure the safety of human lives. In this work, we propose a novel approach to address the problem of crowd management: A Hybrid Intelligent Decision Support System, for managing the crowd of pilgrims, at Al-Jamarat Bridge during Hajj season. The proposed approach, which will yield to an automatic system, will be served as an important tool to help controllers and authorities, for better analysis, managing the overcrowded situations, and thus support them to take appropriate decisions in significant time. The paper illustrates the general architecture and features of the suggested system, and later describes its different components. The main objective of this research study is, to share with the research community, the main ideas of the proposed approach, analyze, and discuss the plans and recommendations, before its development and implementation.