Agent-Based Building Earthquake Evacuation Simulation - AB2E2S

Summary: Developing a simulation framework that considers how people behave during post-earthquake evacuations. It will consider human behaviours such as decision making and psychological/social patterns. The project aims to have a more human-centred design of buildings, where not only the mechanical and functional properties of a building matter in the design process, but also human behaviour. Ultimately, the simulation framework is used to predict how an evacuation will go when the building design is modified using human behaviour as input and can be improved before a building is constructed and occupied.

Funder: New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) National Science Challenge (NSC) – Science for Technological Innovation (SfTI)

Team: Vicente Gonzalez (PI; University of Auckland), Yang Zou, Jiamou Liu(University of Auckland)

Duration: 2019-2022