Alois Ferscha

City Scale Evacuation: A High-Performance Multi-agent Simulation Framework

Understanding the dynamics of urban evacuation systems – due to disasters induced by forces of nature like flooding or tsunamis, terrorism or nuclear power plant accidents – has elicited massive interest over the past years. To perform a simulation for a socio-technical scenario; a typical landscape towards which the modern day cities are increasingly heading to; more recent multi-agent based methodology has increasingly being adopted. In this contribution simulation models of social agents at massive scale are presented. High performance simulation experiments are conducted for the analysis of realistic evacuation models at the level of large cities (( {10^6}-{10^8} )). Variations of demographics and the morphology of cities together with population densities, mobility patterns, individual decision making and agent interactions are analysed.