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Author
Tomoaki, N. | Shin-Ich, T. | Keisuke, H. | Takeyoshi, T.
Title
Study on the Estimation of the Evacuation Behaviors of Tokyo City Residents in the Kanto Earthquake Fire.
Coporate
Kyoto Univ., Japan
Book or Conf
Fire Safety Science. Proceedings. Ninth (9th) International Symposium. International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS). September 21-26, 2008, Intl. Assoc. for Fire Safety Science, Boston, MA, Karlsruhe, Germany, Karlsson, B., Editors, 453-464 p., 2008
Keywords
fire safety | fire science | earthquakes | evacuation | human behavior | urban fires | occupants | simulation | injuries | death | heat release rate | equations | temperature rise | fire plumes | evaluation | people movement | heat exposure | refuge | fire fatalities | fire statistics
Identifiers
evacuation model of residents; safety evaluation model; stochastic route selection model of evacuees; Kanto Earthquake Fire (Kanto plain - main island of Honshu), Tokyo City, Japan, September 1, 1923; Hyogo-Ken Nanbu Earthquake (Kobe), Great Hanshin Disaster, Japan, January 17, 1995; outline of the Kanto earthquake; burning state of meshes corresponding to heat sources; safety evaluation model for evacuees; traveling model of residents; travel speed of evacuees; stochastic route selection model of evacuees; amount of exposure to heat the the behavior of evacuees; eventual number of residents at different evacuation state; eventual number of residents in the refuges