With the development of modern cities, metro are playing an increasingly important role in
urban traffic. A biochemical terrorist attack in a metro station can cause many casualties …

Speedily and safely evacuating the occupants of a disaster area is becoming increasingly
important. Its indispensability is being further emphasized by the recurrence of events like …

We propose a system that supports evacuation after a large-scale disaster. When a large-
scale disaster occurs, collecting information by using portable devices is difficult, because …

Evacuation of people in the event of hazard is one of basic problems of human society. From
early ages people planned their habitat with possibility of hazards in mind. For instance, one …

A disaster emergency consists of many unfavorable factors, such as different disaster areas,
the limited capacity of the rescue centers, and complex rescue conditions. After taking into …

Owing to the increasing frequency and destruction of natural and manmade disasters to
modern highly-populated societies, emergency management, which provides solutions to …

Effective evacuation is critical for safety of occupants. The exiting evacuation systems lack
flexibility and don't consider the distribution of occupants. It is possible to direct occupants to …

There are increasing numbers of natural disasters occurring worldwide, particularly in
populated areas. Such events affect a large number of people causing injuries and fatalities …

In this paper, we propose an extension of an evacuation support system that we have
previously proposed (Taga, 2018). The system suggests evacuation routes in cases of …