Large Scale Crowd Simulation of Terminal Station Area When Tokai Earthquake Advisory Information Is Announced Officially

Abstract

On the assumption of advisory information concerning an imminent Tokai earthquake being officially announced, as a case example we developed a LSCS (Large Scale Crowd Simulator) for the Nagoya Station area, where several terminal stations are concentrated; in the model, agents played people on their way home, and such factors as the routes selected by agents and the spatial restrictions, e.g. passages, were taken into consideration. Basic on SOARS (Spot Oriented Agent Role Simulator) platform, we conducted a large-scale crowd simulation with 160,000 agents and analysis the change of space density in 1 h to compare to the estimates given by Nagoya City, we analysis the result and also refer to LSCSver1.0 for implementing much higher functions.