STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF THE TSUNAMI EVACUATION TOWER USING THE TSUNAMI EVACUATION SIMULATION

Abstract

 This study attempts to investigate effect of a tsunami evacuation tower by using evacuation simulator is coupled with tsunami simulator. This simulator calculates the behavior of evacuation and tsunami at the same time. Thus, the difference of the human suffering and the impact on the evacuation behavior were validated. As a result, in this study's conditions, when the evacuation tower was established at the location near coastal area, it was confirmed possibility to encounter tsunami rises depending on the evacuation start time. On the other hand, when evacuation starts earlier than tsunami arrival time, it was confirmed that it is possible to significantly reduce the death rate. Finally, the effect of new tsunami evacuation tower was validated. As a result, it was confirmed that the death rate is decreased by shortening the average evacuation distance.