Behavior Model for Return Home after Devastating Earthquake in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area

Abstract

After the earthquake on capital, public transportation will stop, and many people become difficult to go home. About the escape behavior in case of an earthquake, many existing papers assume coming home on foot. Earthquake resistance of the railway and subway has been raised after the Kobe earthquake, it will be possible to come home by using railway or subway. The purpose of the paper is build behavior model for return home on the situation which railway will restore after the earthquake soon. As a result of modeling, the earthquake victim prefers using railway to on foot, and a place of refuge influences this preference.