Investigating Bushfire Evacuation Travel Behaviour in High-risk Communities

该项目旨在调查受欢迎的丛林火灾易发社区的人们如何以及为什么在丛林火灾疏散期间做出与旅行有关的决定。在农村交界处人口稠密的地区，森林大火迅速蔓延，运输能力有限，这给伤亡人数创造了完美的风暴。我们的知识中缺少的是人类行为在这些结果中所起的作用。将社会科学和计算机科学的见解应用到工程模型中，该项目有望产生关于林火期间易受影响地区的居民和游客疏散旅行行为的新理论。该项目的预期成果包括改进用于社区准备和反应的工具，以提高澳大利亚对丛林大火的复原力。

This project aims to investigate how and why people in popular bushfire-prone communities make travel-related decisions during bushfire evacuation. Rapid bushfire spread and limited transport capacity in densely populated areas at the rural interface create the ‘perfect storm’ for deaths and injuries. Missing from our knowledge is the role of human behaviour in such outcomes. Applying insights from social and computer sciences to engineering models, this project expects to generate new theory on resident and visitor evacuation travel behaviour in vulnerable areas during bushfires. Expected outcomes of this project include improvements to the tools used for community preparedness and response to increase Australia’s resilience to bushfires.