Efficiency-fairness trade-offs in evacuation management of urban floods: The effects of the shelter capacity and zone prioritization.

ABSTRACT: With increasing flood risk, evacuation has become an important research topic in urban flood management. Urban flood evacuation is a complex problem due to i) the complex interactions among several components within a city and ii) the need to consider multiple, often competing, dimensions/objectives in evacuation analysis. In this study, we focused on the interplay between two such objectives: efficiency and fairness. We captured the evacuation process in a conceptual agent-based model (ABM), which was analyzed under different hard infrastructure and institutional arrangement conditions, namely, various shelter capacity distributions as a hard infrastructure property and simultaneous/staged evacuation as an institutional arrangement. Efficiency was measured as the time it takes for a perso

SUBMITTER: Oh WS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8219134 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature