Understanding human behavior and predicting evacuation processes subsequently to an earthquake are critical aspects to provide valuable information to support disaster response activities. One possible and relevant aspect that characterizes human behavior in emergency situations is panic reactions, which can lead to dysfunctional and irrational responses by fugitives. Given the relevance of this component, this paper implements a panic behavior model in a large-scale agent-based model considering phenomenal parameters, such as seismic damage to the built environment, disruption of roads by earthquake-induced falling debris, and injuries of individuals. The proposed model is applied and tested in IdealCity, a virtual city simulation environment which resembles the geometry of the city of Turin, with about 900,000 inhabitants. The numerical simulations show that the inclusion of a panic behavior model increases the evacuation time despite the increased speed of agents during the evacuation process and this is probably caused by the fact that pedestrians tend to perform random actions before reaching their destination. Furthermore, existing human relationships between agents tend to convert the crowd from individual agents to group of agents that move together, and this behavior might affect the shelter saturation time of both shelters and hospitals as shown in the simulations analyzed in this paper.

Large scale simulation of pedestrian seismic evacuation including panic behavior / De Iuliis, Melissa; Battegazzorre, Edoardo; Domaneschi, Marco; Cimellaro, Gian Paolo; Bottino, Andrea. - In: SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY. - ISSN 2210-6707. - STAMPA. - 94:(2023). [10.1016/j.scs.2023.104527]

Large scale simulation of pedestrian seismic evacuation including panic behavior

De Iuliis, Melissa;Battegazzorre, Edoardo;Domaneschi, Marco;Cimellaro, Gian Paolo;Bottino, Andrea
2023

Abstract

Understanding human behavior and predicting evacuation processes subsequently to an earthquake are critical aspects to provide valuable information to support disaster response activities. One possible and relevant aspect that characterizes human behavior in emergency situations is panic reactions, which can lead to dysfunctional and irrational responses by fugitives. Given the relevance of this component, this paper implements a panic behavior model in a large-scale agent-based model considering phenomenal parameters, such as seismic damage to the built environment, disruption of roads by earthquake-induced falling debris, and injuries of individuals. The proposed model is applied and tested in IdealCity, a virtual city simulation environment which resembles the geometry of the city of Turin, with about 900,000 inhabitants. The numerical simulations show that the inclusion of a panic behavior model increases the evacuation time despite the increased speed of agents during the evacuation process and this is probably caused by the fact that pedestrians tend to perform random actions before reaching their destination. Furthermore, existing human relationships between agents tend to convert the crowd from individual agents to group of agents that move together, and this behavior might affect the shelter saturation time of both shelters and hospitals as shown in the simulations analyzed in this paper.
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