Applied Pedestrian Simulation

This Economist article (via Smart Mobs) is about the Swiss government employing pedestrian simulation to help manage the look and feel of the alps. The research project, PedSim, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has an Open Source component with some fun movies which looks like it's aiming at the kind of work done by Massive Software - as seen in Lord of the Rings - the crowd simulation with the show-reel that can't be beaten!

(I keep more links like these at del.icio.us/TomC/pedestrians)