Pedestrian Choice Modeling and Simulation of Staged Evacuation Strategies in Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant

Abstract

Considering the distances to exits, exits’ capacities, the sizes of queues at exits, distances to the nuclear power plant, as well as individual characteristics, the exit choice model for pedestrians in the plume planning area is established based on a random forest model. This model is trained and verified with the survey data of residents around the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant collected from a serious game-based questionnaire system. Combining the pedestrian choice with the agent-based pedestrian behavior simulation model, the evacuation process of a nuclear accident is simulated. Based on the detailed evacuation simulation model, a comparative experiment is performed to evaluate the staged evacuation strategy in such scenarios. Simulation results indicate that staged evacuation may not be the best strategy all the time, and the number of groups highly impacts its performance.