Emergency Evacuation Modelling: A Systematic Review on Human Behaviour Prediction Methodologies and Approaches for Planning the Evacuation Routeing

Natural disasters are frequently occurring events, and evidence indicates that they will continue to increase in frequency and cause further harm and damage to society and the environment. Thus, robust and effective disaster management strategies are necessary to overcome the consequences of disastr...

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Main Author: Noor Ilahi, Razan
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/69989/
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description Natural disasters are frequently occurring events, and evidence indicates that they will continue to increase in frequency and cause further harm and damage to society and the environment. Thus, robust and effective disaster management strategies are necessary to overcome the consequences of disastrous events. To enhance evacuation planning that considers the major risk mitigation aspect, this work aims to deliver an informative database of recent methodologies used in planning for evacuation in an attempt to bridge the gap between the social sciences and transportation engineering. A systematic review of 70 articles and conference proceedings in the field of planning for evacuation concerning behaviour prediction and the optimisation of evacuation routeing was carried out to offer broad insights into the improvement areas in the utilised methods. The findings revealed that agent-based simulation is the most employed method in investigating/predicting human behaviours during emergencies. Further, the traffic assignment optimisation approach is the most frequently used technique in planning/analysing evacuation routeing, whereas the objective of identifying the shortest path is commonly used. Further, the decision to evacuate is among the most investigated human factors in planning the evacuation process, as it directly affects evacuation demand and departure times, and hence, traffic management. After a detailed exploration of evacuation planning methodologies, this work proposes a framework comprising sub-models that transfer the outputs from human behaviour investigations into evacuation routeing planning, with suggestions regarding the suitable approaches that can be utilised. Extended research could be implemented to check the compatibility of the suggested methodologies across the framework.
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spelling nottingham-699892023-06-20T15:49:10Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/69989/ Emergency Evacuation Modelling: A Systematic Review on Human Behaviour Prediction Methodologies and Approaches for Planning the Evacuation Routeing Noor Ilahi, Razan Natural disasters are frequently occurring events, and evidence indicates that they will continue to increase in frequency and cause further harm and damage to society and the environment. Thus, robust and effective disaster management strategies are necessary to overcome the consequences of disastrous events. To enhance evacuation planning that considers the major risk mitigation aspect, this work aims to deliver an informative database of recent methodologies used in planning for evacuation in an attempt to bridge the gap between the social sciences and transportation engineering. A systematic review of 70 articles and conference proceedings in the field of planning for evacuation concerning behaviour prediction and the optimisation of evacuation routeing was carried out to offer broad insights into the improvement areas in the utilised methods. The findings revealed that agent-based simulation is the most employed method in investigating/predicting human behaviours during emergencies. Further, the traffic assignment optimisation approach is the most frequently used technique in planning/analysing evacuation routeing, whereas the objective of identifying the shortest path is commonly used. Further, the decision to evacuate is among the most investigated human factors in planning the evacuation process, as it directly affects evacuation demand and departure times, and hence, traffic management. After a detailed exploration of evacuation planning methodologies, this work proposes a framework comprising sub-models that transfer the outputs from human behaviour investigations into evacuation routeing planning, with suggestions regarding the suitable approaches that can be utilised. Extended research could be implemented to check the compatibility of the suggested methodologies across the framework. 2022-09-04 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/69989/1/Razan%20Noor%20Ilahi.pdf Noor Ilahi, Razan (2022) Emergency Evacuation Modelling: A Systematic Review on Human Behaviour Prediction Methodologies and Approaches for Planning the Evacuation Routeing. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] disaster emergency human factors optimisation evacuation planning evacuation behaviour simulation dynamic
spellingShingle disaster
emergency
human factors
optimisation
evacuation planning
evacuation behaviour
simulation
dynamic
Noor Ilahi, Razan
Emergency Evacuation Modelling: A Systematic Review on Human Behaviour Prediction Methodologies and Approaches for Planning the Evacuation Routeing
title Emergency Evacuation Modelling: A Systematic Review on Human Behaviour Prediction Methodologies and Approaches for Planning the Evacuation Routeing
title_full Emergency Evacuation Modelling: A Systematic Review on Human Behaviour Prediction Methodologies and Approaches for Planning the Evacuation Routeing
title_fullStr Emergency Evacuation Modelling: A Systematic Review on Human Behaviour Prediction Methodologies and Approaches for Planning the Evacuation Routeing
title_full_unstemmed Emergency Evacuation Modelling: A Systematic Review on Human Behaviour Prediction Methodologies and Approaches for Planning the Evacuation Routeing
title_short Emergency Evacuation Modelling: A Systematic Review on Human Behaviour Prediction Methodologies and Approaches for Planning the Evacuation Routeing
title_sort emergency evacuation modelling: a systematic review on human behaviour prediction methodologies and approaches for planning the evacuation routeing
topic disaster
emergency
human factors
optimisation
evacuation planning
evacuation behaviour
simulation
dynamic
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/69989/