Investigating Bushfire Evacuation Travel Behaviour in High-risk Communities

该项目旨在调查在受欢迎的火灾易发社区的人们如何以及为什么在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地区，快速的火灾蔓延和有限的运输能力造成了伤亡的“完美风暴”。我们的知识中缺少人类行为在这些结果中的作用。该项目将社会科学和计算机科学的见解应用于工程模型，预计将产生关于火灾期间脆弱地区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备灾和应对的工具，以提高澳大利亚对森林火灾的复原力。

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.