2008.4-2009.3 Yearbook of NILIM
Research Summary
Urban Planning Department
| Reference Number | Y080704 |
| Title | Estimation of human damages caused by city fire after an earthquake considering district's facilities in densely built-up areas |
| Start-End Date | 2006.4-2009.3 |
| Division | Urban Disaster Mitigation Division Urban Planning Division |
| Author | Head, Nozomu Kiuchi Senior Researcher, Yutaka Yamagish Senior Researcher, Shuichi Takeya Senior Researcher, Tatsuya Iwami (Urban Planning Division) |
| Summary | An earthquake will claim lives and destroy properties in Japanese densely built-up districts. So it is necessary for us to estimate human damages caused by an earthquake of city and district for improvement. In this study, we tried to develop evacuation simulation based on multi-agent system to estimate casualties caused by an earthquake and city fire, and also we developed effective countermeasures to reduce damages caused by city fire |