A stugy on the information provision methods for tourists during disasters using an agent approach

• Project/Area Number: 19K15267
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 25030:Disaster prevention engineering-related
• Research Institution: Josai University (2021-2022); Ritsumeikan University (2019-2020)
• Principal Investigator: SAKAI KOHEI 城西大学, 現代政策学部, 助教 (20826945)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000); Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
• Keywords: エージェントシミュレーション / シミュレーション・ゲーミング / 避難 / 観光客 / 観光防災 / 避難行動 / 帰宅困難者 / エージェントモデリング / 防災意識 / 情報提供 / 訪日外国人観光客 / 一斉帰宅 / 情報提供手法

Outline of Research at the Start

本申請は、エージェントアプローチによるシミュレーションを核とした災害時情報提供手法の構築を目的とし、災害時観光客の脆弱性を緩和することを目指す。具体的には、調査研究に基づいた観光客行動モデルの構築、災害時行動シミュレーションの開発と政策提案、シミュレーションを用いた机上訓練ツールの作成と評価、以上３つの研究を並走させ、既存研究が抱えていた課題や限界を打開し、観光客が抱える脆弱性緩和や課題解決のための知見を得る。

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study conducted (a) a sampling survey study of tourists and a study of tourist return home behavior during an earthquake to mitigate the simultaneous return home by tourists, (b) a study of tourist evacuation simulation, and (c)gaming simulation to evaluate evacuation plans by agent simulation were clarified. By running a-c in parallel, it was revealed that this gaming meets the requirements for community disaster prevention.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

研究成果は国際論誌2報として刊行されている。そのうち一つは、オープンアクセスであり、誰でも内容を確認することができる。シミュレーションという科学知や学術知の手法を、市民知に融合させることの有用性を明らかにした本研究が、AIやIotの活用を見据えた次の時代の市民防災へより発展させる意義を持つと考える。

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Providing Disaster Information to Inbound Tourists: Case Study for the Historical City of Kyoto, Japan (2022)
  • Author(s): Kohei Sakai, Hidehiko Kanegae
  • Journal Title: Invisible Reconstruction: Social reconstruction and communication in the face of natural, biological and man made disaster Volume: - Pages: 250-267
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] 複数状況の組み合わせを考慮した観光客の避難行動に関する研究 (2021)
  • Author(s): 酒井 宏平
  • Journal Title: 城西現代政策研究 Volume: 15 Issue: 1 Pages: 19-31
  • DOI: 10.20566/18819001_15(1)_19
  • NAID: 120007180471
  • URL: https://libir.josai.ac.jp/il/meta_pub/G0000284repository_JOS-18819001-1503
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] Evacuation Simulation Considering Tourists’ Attempts to Return Home: A Case of the Kiyomizu-dera Temple Area, Japan (2021)
  • Author(s): Sakai Kohei、Kanegae Hidehiko
  • Journal Title: Historic Cities in the Face of Disasters: Reconstruction, Recovery and Resilience of Societies Volume: n/a Pages: 559-575
  • DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77356-4_33
  • ISBN: 9783030773557, 9783030773564
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] A Study on Gaming of Participatory Evacuation Planning in Tourist Area using Agent Simulation (2019)
  • Author(s): Sakai Kohei, Shimizu Hiroari, Toyoda Yusuke and Kanegae Hidehiko
  • Journal Title: Hamada Ryoju, Soranastaporn Songsri, Kanegae Hidehiko, Dumrongrojwatthana Pongchai, Chaisanit Settchai, Rizzi Paola and Demblekar Vinod (Eds.) “Neo-Simulation and Gaming Toward Active Learning” Volume: - Pages: 276-286
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] A Study on tourists' intention factors to return home in an earthquake using decision tree analysis (2021)
  • Author(s): Sakai Kohei、Kanegae Hidehiko
  • Organizer: Invisible Reconstruction
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 訪日外国人観光客の防災意識に関する研究：京都市を事例に (2019)
  • Author(s): 酒井宏平, 鐘ヶ江秀彦
  • Organizer: 日本地域学会 第56回(2019年)年次大会 (久留米大学)
• [Presentation] 36.A Study on Evacuation Method Using Agent Simulation Based on Tourists' Behavioral intention (2019)
  • Author(s): Sakai K., Kanegae H.
  • Organizer: 3rd Silk Cities 2019 (University of L'Aquila)
  • Int'l Joint Research