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Effects of child pick-up behavior on emergency evacuations

  • Jang, Sang Hoon (School of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Hwang, Ha (Division of Disaster & Safety Research, Korea Institute of Public Administration) ;
  • Chung, Ji-Bum (School of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Received : 2021.09.12
  • Accepted : 2022.01.30
  • Published : 2022.07.25
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Abstract

The child pick-up behavior of parents during an emergency can cause heavy traffic congestion and failing to evacuate an affected area successfully. In this study, we analyzed the effect of child pick-up behavior using, as an example, a nuclear power plant accident caused by an earthquake, which is a typical no-notice emergency. A quake was assumed to occur near the Shin-Kori nuclear power plant in Ulsan, Korea, resulting in a nuclear power plant accident. An agent-based dynamic simulation model using VISSIM was employed to conduct sensitivity analyses with different child pick-up rates. The results confirmed that parents are a major cause of congestion and a vulnerable class in an emergency evacuation. The child pick-up behavior caused significant traffic congestion, and parents who pick up their children showed a higher evacuation failure rate.

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This work was supported by the Ministry of Interior and Safety (MOIS, Korea) [Technology Development Program on Disaster Restoration Capacity Building and Strengthening (grant No. 2021-MOIS36-002)].

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