Simulation of tourists’ wayfinding during evacuation based on experiments in Kyoto

Tourists are often more vulnerable than residents in sudden disaster situations due to lack of knowledge regarding evacuation routes and safe areas. To establish protocols the schemes for tourist areas, it is necessary gather their likely behavior during an evacuation. Since there few actual data available we conducted a VR (Virtual Reality) experiment assuming situation estimated tourists’ route choice based on experiment. In pictures intersection touristic Higashiyama area Kyoto, Japan, where shown participants they could choose direction want proceed until reaching open space or designated shelter. As result, quantify impact road width and, some degree, network structure. The results reveal tendency select wide roads straight. If were put under time pressure these tendencies intensified. Utilizing constructed simulation. We distribution amount tourists using obtained from mobile phone service provider. simulation VisWalk with various guidance compared those results. illustrate potential capacity bottlenecks shelter locations importance provide certain points network.