When large-scale disasters occur, evacuees have to evacuate to safe places quickly. In this paper, we propose an automatic evacuation guiding scheme using mobile nodes of evacuees. Each node tries to navigate its evacuee by presenting an evacuation route. It can also trace the actual evacuation route of the evacuee as the trajectory by measuring his/her positions periodically. The proposed scheme automatically estimates blocked road segments from the difference between the presented evacuation route and the actual evacuation route, and then recalculates the alternative evacuation route. In addition, evacuees also share such information among them through direct wireless communication with other mobile nodes and that with a server via remaining communication infrastructures. Through simulation experiments, we show that 1) the effectiveness of the proposed scheme becomes high with the increase of degree of damage and 2) the effect of information sharing through communication infrastructures is higher than that through direct wireless communication.
Nobuhisa Komatsu, Masahiro Sasabe, Jun Kawahara, Shoji Kasahara, Automatic Evacuation Guiding Scheme Using Trajectories of Mobile Nodes, Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis), 9228, pp.3-14, August 2015.
@inproceedings{komatsu15AutomaticEvacuationGuiding,
author = "Komatsu, Nobuhisa and Sasabe, Masahiro and Kawahara, Jun and Kasahara, Shoji",
editor = "Younas, Muhammad and Awan, Irfan and Mecella, Massimo",
title = "Automatic {{Evacuation Guiding Scheme Using Trajectories}} of {{Mobile Nodes}}",
booktitle = "Mobile {{Web}} and {{Intelligent Information Systems}} ({{MobiWis}})",
year = "2015",
month = "August",
volume = "9228",
pages = "3--14",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-23144-0\_1"
}