Large-Scale Evacuation Shelter Selection Method Through Iterations of Pedestrian Simulations With Dynamic Congestion Reproduction

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 10; pp. 89387 - 89401
• Main Authors: Umeki, Kazuhito, Tanaka, Tomoki, Nakamura, Yugo, Fujimoto, Manato, Mizumoto, Teruhiro, Suwa, Hirohiko, Arakawa, Yutaka, Yasumoto, Keiichi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 2022; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Combinatorial analysis; Combinatorial optimization problem; Computational modeling; Congestion; congestion-aware; Disaster management; Earthquakes; Estimation; Evacuation; evacuation strategies; Evacuations & rescues; Mathematical models; multi-agent simulation; Multi-agent systems; Multiagent systems; Optimization; Road traffic; Roads; Safety; shelter selection; Shelters; Simulation; Streets; Urban areas

It is necessary to optimize evacuation guidance to shelters in short evacuation time. The state-of-the-art method based on an idea of combinatorial optimization problems related to evacuees' locations and the capacities of nearby shelters has been developed, while it cannot mitigate the effect...