Verification of Evacuation Model against Tsunami Based on Evacuation Training Data

Abstract

The authors have developed the evacuation model against tsunami, which can handle the evacuation behavior in a district with several buildings. The main purposeof the paper is to verify the model based on evacuation training data. Evacuation behavior of 184 employees among three buildings in a company was recorded during evacuation training against tsunami. Also, the authors have simulated evacuation behavior during training under the same condition with training and comparedthe predicted results of the model with the ones which are obtained from training. The main indexes for evacuation behavior such as the predicted time to complete the evacuation are almost the same with the data in training and it was confirmed that the model could precisely predict evacuation behavior against tsunami.