A Simulation-based Research on Emergency Pedestrian Evacuation for Urban Residential Districts
Evacuation may be carried out before, during or after natural disasters, terrorist attacks, etc. And it is a common strategy for handling such emergency situations. This paper presents a simulation-based research on emergency pedestrian evacuation for urban residential districts, which takes into account the behavioral input. This study assumes that residents in threatened living districts are evacuated to safe places on foot. A temporal distribution curve of residents evacuation decision time is obtained based on studying the decision-making behavior of residents before evacuation. The degree of rationality and familiarity are introduced to predict spatial distribution of residents. Evacuation simulations are conducted with different values of the degree of rationality and familiarity. The network clearance time is obtained to measure the effect of peoples different behavior on evacuation efficiency. The simulation incorporating behavior input is much more realistic than purely engineering-type models.
emergency evacuation pedestrian evacuation emergency management traffic simulation
Li Shuang Deng Wei Lv Yisheng
School of Transportation Southeast University Nanjing,China Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing,China
国际会议
长沙
英文
1144-1147
2009-04-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）