The goal of this project was to use an agent-based and GIS model to develop a spatial decision tool to help urban planners identify the most effective locations for tsunami evacuation shelters using the analytical hierarchy process and GIS mapping. Different agent-based and GIS models for tsunami evacuation have been developed to study the impact of evacuee behavior and decision making on evacuation success, the placement and capacity of evacuation shelters, and to replicate actual tsunami evacuations. Two models, developed by Prof. Bhattacharya, were used to evaluate the effects of different community characteristics on the success of tsunami evacuation. These characteristics were then applied in the spatial decision support tool to select sites for evacuation shelters which were more centrally located to evacuees in hazard zones.

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Creator

• Noggle, Rose

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042722-081237
• 64126

Keyword

• GIS
• Spatial decision support tool
• Agent based model
• Tsunami
• Evacuation model
• Disaster risk management

Advisor

• Albano, Leonard D.
• Van Dessel, Steven

Year

• 2022

Sponsor

• Professor Bhattacharya, Shibaura Institute of Technology

Date created

• 2022-04-27

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Civil Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright