Route Guidance Map for Emergency Evacuation

DOI

10.2991/jrarc.2016.6.3.3How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Disaster preparedness, public safety, simulation, emergency, evacuation plan, strategic planning.

Abstract

An efficient process of emergency evacuation must be guided. In the event of an evacuation instruction, a significant amount of time is spent by evacuees looking for a place of relative safety or an exit. Due to the ensuing stress and confusion evacuees try to follow others, consequently, all the exits are not used effectively. Therefore, it is important to develop a route guidance map for the emergency. The focus of the map is to help both, the evacuees and the authorities to perform evacuation efficiently. This paper presents a route guidance map for pedestrians that aims an efficient evacuation in case of an emergency. An agent-based simulation framework is used for the simulation of various scenarios to prepare the guiding map. A real world case study of Sarojini Nagar, Delhi is presented to test the presented methodology. Eventually, several strategic recommendations are provided for improving safety of existing infrastructure.

Copyright

© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lakshay
AU  - Amit Agarwal
AU  - Nomesh B. Bolia
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2016/10/03
TI  - Route Guidance Map for Emergency Evacuation
JO  - Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response
SP  - 135
EP  - 144
VL  - 6
IS  - 3
SN  - 2210-8505
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/jrarc.2016.6.3.3
DO  - 10.2991/jrarc.2016.6.3.3
ID  - 2016
ER  -