Conflict Model of Evacuees and Vehicles on Pedestrian Crossing in the Aftermath of Disaster

Kentaro Kumagai () and Kenji Ono ()
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Kentaro Kumagai: Kyoto University, Graduate School of Management
Kenji Ono: Port and Airport Research Institute

A chapter in Traffic and Granular Flow '17, 2019, pp 467-476 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Simulation which focuses on conflict between pedestrians and vehicles is important to assess evacuation safety of the pedestrians and drivers of the vehicles at a disaster. Although there were many researches in regular traffic conditions, conflict in the aftermath of disaster has not been discussed enough. Griffiths et al. developed a microscopic simulation model of pedestrians and vehicles on an unsignalized zebra crossing. In this contribution, we attempted to modify the conflict model of Griffiths et al. and applied it to a zebra crossing and an event of a tsunami evacuation drill. In the model proposed, we made assumptions that pedestrians are more reckless to cross a street in an emergency. As a result, it was found that the conflict model which takes into account the hypothesis about psychological state of pedestrians reproduced well the results of a field survey.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11440-4_51

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