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A crowd scientist is helping the Boston Marathon manage a growing field of 30,000-plus runners
- The Boston Marathon features over 32,000 runners racing 26.2 miles through eight Massachusetts cities with narrow, historic streets.
- Marcel Altenburg, a senior lecturer in crowd science, has been hired to help manage the growing field and improve the runner experience.
- Altenburg has creative freedom to simulate and optimize starting waves within the existing time window to reduce congestion.
- This year, runners will start in six waves organized by qualifying times instead of three, and feedback will be reviewed over the next three years.
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