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Simulation of City Evacuation Coupled to Flood Dynamics

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Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2012

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Crowd modeling is one of the key components of risk analysis and evacuation planning in emergency situations. This paper presents a simulation environment for experimenting with different city evacuation scenarios. The simulation couples a flood model with a crowd escape model. The developed agent-based crowd model mimics the behavior of pedestrians escaping from dangerous regions towards safe areas. The system is evaluated through a series of experiments, modeling the flooding of an area in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Acknowledgement

This work is supported by the Leading Scientist Program of the Russian Federation, contracts 11.G34.31.0019 and 13.G25.31.0029; by the EU FP7 project UrbanFlood, grant N 248767; and by the BiGGrid project BG-020-10 # 2010/01550/NCF with financial support from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research NWO.

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  1. National Research University ITMO, St. Petersburg, Russia

    A. S. Mordvintsev, V. V. Krzhizhanovskaya & P. M. A. Sloot

  2. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    V. V. Krzhizhanovskaya & P. M. A. Sloot

  3. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    M. H. Lees & P. M. A. Sloot

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Mordvintsev, A.S., Krzhizhanovskaya, V.V., Lees, M.H., Sloot, P.M.A. (2014). Simulation of City Evacuation Coupled to Flood Dynamics. In: Weidmann, U., Kirsch, U., Schreckenberg, M. (eds) Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2012. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02447-9_40

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