Emergency Evacuation Simulation and Management Optimization in Urban Residential Communities
Open Access
- 2 February 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in Sustainability
- Vol. 11 (3), 795
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su11030795
Abstract
Timely and secure evacuation of residents in communities is of great importance during unexpected disasters or emergency events. This study proposes a framework of evacuation simulation for optimizing emergency management in urban residential communities. Compared to traditional methods, the advantage of our framework lies in three aspects: (1) The method highlights easy-crowded areas in both indoor and outdoor evacuations. (2) Family behaviors are considered and implemented in evacuations. (3) Detailed measures on management optimization are spatially mapped based on a multi-level analysis and the comparison of evacuation simulation results in different scenarios. A case study in Changhongfang residential community, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China, was conducted to demonstrate the method feasibility. Simulation results have exposed potential evacuation problems in the community. A series of detailed recommended measures have been generated. These measures can help to create better emergency management for the community.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (41201548, 5161101688, 71603168)
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