Citizens’ behaviours related to smoke in bushfires and their implications for computational models of evacuation

dc.contributor.author Dugdale, Julie
dc.contributor.author Lemiale, Vincent
dc.date.accessioned 2020-12-24T19:26:58Z
dc.date.available 2020-12-24T19:26:58Z
dc.date.issued 2021-01-05
dc.description.abstract The behaviours of citizens during bushfires may determine whether they live or die. Using 100 citizen witness statements from the 2009 Australian bushfires, we show how people react to bushfire smoke. Eighty-nine witnesses expressly mention smoke, not necessarily in combination with fire. This prompted behaviours including: seeking further information, monitoring the situation, effecting a fire plan (including evacuation), alerting people to danger and fire risk, and going home. Computational simulators have been used to assess civilians’ risk and to help with evacuation efforts. Despite works that accurately model fire spread and people’s behaviours in response to perceiving fire, the issue of how people react to seeing smoke from a bushfire is rarely considered. We discuss how the identified behaviours may be incorporated into an agent-based simulator of bushfire.
dc.format.extent 9 pages
dc.identifier.doi 10.24251/HICSS.2021.273
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9981331-4-0
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/70886
dc.language.iso English
dc.relation.ispartof Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject Disaster Information, Resilience, for Emergency and Crisis Technologies
dc.subject agent based simulation
dc.subject bushfire
dc.subject human behaviour
dc.subject modelling
dc.title Citizens’ behaviours related to smoke in bushfires and their implications for computational models of evacuation
prism.startingpage 2226
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