A novel approach in crowd evacuation planning: Behavioural intervention

快速、安全地疏散人群的能力可能意味着在大规模紧急情况下生死存亡的区别。虽然公众对紧急情况的即时反应对他们的生存至关重要，但他们在危机管理中的作用往往没有得到充分利用。该项目在城市应急规划中建立了一种创新和务实的方法：通过行为培训优化疏散。将采取开创性的经验步骤来发现个体群体成员应该采取的最佳策略，并确定改变群体反应的有效程度。结果将产生教育指南，提高公众意识和社区对公共紧急情况的准备。

The ability to rapidly and safely evacuate crowds can mean the difference between death and survival in mass emergencies. While the immediate reaction of the public to an emergency is paramount for their survival, their role in crisis management is often not fully harnessed. This project establishes an innovative and pragmatic approach in urban emergency planning: optimising evacuations through behavioural training. Pioneering empirical steps will be taken to discover optimum strategies that individual crowd members should adopt, and to establish the extent to which modifying crowd response can be effective. The outcomes will result in educational guides that will increase public awareness and community preparedness for public emergencies.