Studying the Impact of Public Transport on Disaster Evacuation

摘要: Disasters of different types are an increasing threat to modern societies. The speed at which people can evacuate a disaster may mean the difference between life or death. One way modelling evacuation is by using multi-agent simulation, in each person population simulated as autonomous individual. This enables emergency management groups analyse results across range scenarios, under varying parameter settings, better under-stand how reduce times. Previous studies have used this approach model evacuations, but only considered on foot. research effect public transport process Multi-Agent Transport Simulation (MATSim) platform. Experimental show large reductions average time agents be achieved transport, compared with pedestrian traffic only. A sensitivity analysis illustrates conditions additional buses added further and limit improvement.