Author(s): Mohammad Shirvani; Georges Kesserwani
Linked Author(s): Georges Kesserwani
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Abstract: Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) is an increasingly used approach for characterisation of human behaviour in evacuation simulation modelling. ABM-based evacuation models used in flood emergency are developed mostly for vehicular scenarios at regional scale. Only a few models exist for simulating evacuations of on-foot pedestrians responding to floods in small and congested urban areas. These models do not include the heterogeneity and variability of individuals’ behaviour influenced by their dynamic interactions with the floodwater properties. The flood-pedestrian simulator is an evacuation modelling framework which was developed to simulate the two-way interactions across and between local floodwater flow and heterogeneous pedestrian movements. It enables microscopic analysis of flood-risk to evacuating people at an individual level in both space and time. This article represents the application of the simulator for a real-world case study of a mass evacuation from a football stadium in response to a flood emergency.
Year: 2022