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Some considerations on crowd Congestion Level

The concept of (crowd) Congestion Level ($CL$) was introduced in Feliciani et al (Transportation Research, 2018) and presented at the PED 2018 conference by C. Feliciani. Following the PED presentation, along with appreciation for the novel contribution, a few interesting questions were raised, concerning the integral/differential nature of the definition of $CL$, and the possibility of defining a related pure number. In these short notes we are going, although with no attempt at rigour or formality, to present some considerations suggesting that the two problems are related, and providing a possible solution. Furthermore, using both theoretical arguments and analysis of simulated data in complex scenarios, we will try to shed further light on the meaning and applications of this concept. Finally, we analyse some results of an experiment performed with human participants in a ``crossing-flows'' scenario.