STUDY ON INFLUENCE OF PRIOR RECOGNITION OF FLOODING STATE ON EVACUATION BEHAVIOR

Abstract

In recent years, typhoons and heavy rains have caused enormous flood damages in various part of Japan. In this study, the evacuation simulations in which an agent grasps the flooding state based on the result of flooding analysis in advance from, for instance, a hazard map made by a local government are carried on. In consequence, it becomes possible that the agent completes evacuation in short time without been caught in the flooding by grasping the flooding state in advance. In this case, the rate of completion of evacuation is significantly higher than that when the flooding state are not known beforehand.