A study on simulation of evacuation at underground shoppmg street using cellular automata

Abstract

The City of Fukuoka suffered great damage from the heavy rains in July 29th 1999. Peculiarity of this disaster was that underground space was flooded and this caused death. Disaster prevention planing in underground space was not enough. In closed space as underground shopping street, human behavior during evacuation is confused. For safe and quick evacuation, it is important to make rational disaster prevention planing based on the prediction of human behaviors. In this research, human behaviors during evacuation in Teijin underground shopping street were simulated using Cellar Automata. Applicability of this method was discussed in this paper.