Capacity and Density are frequently used in the wrong context. Let's explore the difference...
Both are fundamental terms in crowd safety and management, but what’s the difference?
Capacity and density, in a crowd safety context, both relate to the number of people in a given area. However, that’s as far as the similarity extends. The former represents an agreed maximum number of people a given area can accommodate based on a variety of contributing factors. Thus capacity is a fixed, pre determined number.