Abstract
Tourists are often more vulnerable than residents in sudden disaster situations due to lack of knowledge regarding evacuation routes and safe areas. To establish protocols and the schemes for tourist evacuation to safe areas, it is necessary to gather their likely behavior during an evacuation. Since there are few actual data available we conducted a VR (Virtual Reality) experiment assuming a sudden disaster situation and estimated tourists' route choice based on the experiment. In the experiment pictures of intersection in the touristic Higashiyama area of Kyoto, Japan, where shown to participants and they could choose the direction they want to proceed until reaching an open space or designated shelter. As a result, we could quantify the impact of road width and, to some degree, network structure. The results reveal the tendency to select wide roads and to proceed straight. If the participants were put under time pressure these tendencies are intensified. Utilizing these results we constructed an evacuation simulation. We estimated the distribution and amount of tourists using data obtained from a mobile phone service provider. We conducted the simulation using VisWalk with various guidance situations and compared those results. The results illustrate potential capacity bottlenecks of designated shelter locations and the importance to provide route guidance and certain points in the network.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 640-647 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Transportation Research Procedia |
Volume | 62 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2022 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 24th Euro Working Group on Transportation Meeting, EWGT 2021 - Aveiro, Portugal Duration: 8 Sep 2021 → 10 Sep 2021 |
Keywords
- Evacuation simulation
- Tourists' evacuation planning
- Virtual Reality
- Wayfinding
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Transportation