Abstract
Tsunami evacuation plans have been deliberately developed by local governments in coastal areas in Japan under guidance from the national government since before the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011. These plans, however, do not mention the time required for all local residents to evacuate to evacuation areas. This paper reports a procedure to design an effective tsunami safe town planning using multi-agent simulator (MAS) which identify a degree of evacuation risk in objective area. A case study is applied to one of the worst hit town of tsunami, in which additional facilities such as evacuation areas, safe buildings, and evacuation routes are proposed as well.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 719-729 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Journal of Disaster Research |
| Volume | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 Sep 1 |
Keywords
- Evacuation simulation
- Hazard map
- Multi-agent
- Risk assessment
- Tsunami
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
- Engineering (miscellaneous)
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Yoshida, Y., Kimura, T., Minegishi, Y., & Sano, T. (2014). Tsunami safe town planning with evacuation simulation. Journal of Disaster Research, 9, 719-729. https://doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2014.p0719