Agent-Based Evacuation Model Considering Field Effects and Government Advice

This research aimed to incorporate social capital, defined as information flow from government to population and information flow within a population, into an agent-based evacuation model. The importance of social capital based on lessons from past disasters of broken communications from key decision makers was considered as well as the effectiveness of crowd influence during an evacuation, which is vital to future evacuation plans or infrastructure improvements to resolve congestion on critical links or points. The emphasis of the study was to describe the modeling framework and implementation into an agent-based modeling framework. The software was tested with an illustrative case study. The key findings demonstrated a higher survival rate if evacuees tended to heed the government’s evacuation guidance whenever it was available or to follow the evacuation advice of the neighboring crowd.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.3141/2532-15
• Availability:
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• Authors:
  • Teo, Joel S E
  • Schmöcker, Jan-Dirk
  • Leon, Florin
  • Li, Joe Y-T
  • Ji, Jun
  • Atanasiu, Gabriela
  • Taniguchi, Eiichi
• Publication Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 129–140
• Monograph Title: Systems Resilience and Climate Change
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 2532
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Crowds; Evacuation; Information dissemination; Pedestrians; Traffic congestion; Traveler information and communication systems
• Uncontrolled Terms: Social capital
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Policy; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01550560
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309369152
• Report/Paper Numbers: 15-2724
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 26 2015 9:50AM