Open AccessTsunami Safe Town Planning with Evacuation Simulation
Author(s) -
Yoshiyuki Yoshida,
Takahisa Kondo,
Yoshikazu Minegishi,
Takeshi Sano
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of disaster research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1883-8030
pISSN - 1881-2473
DOI - 10.20965/jdr.2014.p0719
Subject(s) - town planning , environmental planning , emergency evacuation , civil engineering , urban planning , geography , engineering , meteorology
Tsunami evacuation plans have been deliberately developed by local governments in coastal areas in Japan under guidance from the national government since before the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011. These plans, however, do not mention the time required for all local residents to evacuate to evacuation areas. This paper reports a procedure to design an effective tsunami safe town planning using multi-agent simulator (MAS) which identify a degree of evacuation risk in objective area. A case study is applied to one of the worst hit town of tsunami, in which additional facilities such as evacuation areas, safe buildings, and evacuation routes are proposed as well.