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A Prototypal Test Using Stated Preferences Data To Model Evacuation Decisions

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

173

Pages

10

Page Range

743 - 752

Published

2013

Size

62 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/SDP130621

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

F. Russo, G. Chilà

Abstract

An experiment carried out on stated preferences (SP) data highlights the role of the informer in the user choice process during evacuation conditions. Starting from the SP data, in this paper we propose a prototypal experimentation of choice models simulating the choice to evacuate or not in different evacuation conditions: calibrated models focus on the role of the informer that determine different responses of users, given a particular kind of dangerous event.

Keywords

evacuation conditions, hypothetical scenarios, calibrated parameters