IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/phsmap/v651y2024ics0378437124005399.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Individual route choice behavior in evacuation considering avoidance and phototropism: An experimental study

Author

Listed:
  • Shi, Jiguang
  • Ding, Ning
  • Wang, Yang
  • Zhang, Erhao

Abstract

During an emergency evacuation in a building, participants' evacuation signs obedience behaviors have a significant impact on evacuation efficiency, while participants' possible phototropism and hazard avoidance behaviors occur during evacuation, which will affect evacuation efficiency. To investigate the effects of participants' phototropism and hazard avoidance behaviors on compliance with evacuation signs. One pre-experiment and four groups of evacuation experiments were conducted in the T-junction and Room of the building with a total of 170 participants. A fumes generator and searchlight to simulate light and fumes conditions under fire. Using the statistical analysis to explore the differences in the route choice behavior of evacuees under different conditions. The results show that: (1) In the natural state, participants showed significant phototropism and hazard avoidance. (2) Phototropism and hazard avoidance affect participants' obedience to evacuation signs. (3) In the room scene, participants demonstrated more obvious phototropism and hazard avoidance, even deviating from the evacuation sign's guidelines；(4) Participants showed some decision inertia during two consecutive decisions. Further combined with SHAP interpretable machine learning for analysis, it was found that (1) Scene conditions exist for phototropism and hazard avoidance in evacuees. (2) Fumes prevented participants' obedience to the evacuation sign, whereas light promoted participants' obedience to the sign. This indicates that evacuation signs need to be installed regarding the actual building structure. These findings can be used as theoretical references for building safety design, campus safety, and evacuation simulation tests.

Suggested Citation

  • Shi, Jiguang & Ding, Ning & Wang, Yang & Zhang, Erhao, 2024. "Individual route choice behavior in evacuation considering avoidance and phototropism: An experimental study," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 651(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:651:y:2024:i:c:s0378437124005399
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2024.130030
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437124005399
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only. Journal offers the option of making the article available online on Science direct for a fee of $3,000
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.physa.2024.130030?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Lovreglio, Ruggiero & Fonzone, Achille & dell’Olio, Luigi, 2016. "A mixed logit model for predicting exit choice during building evacuations," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 92(C), pages 59-75.
    2. Fu, Libi & Shi, Qingxin & Qin, Huigui & Zhang, Ying & Shi, Yongqian, 2022. "Analysis of movement behavior of pedestrian social groups through a bottleneck," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 608(P1).
    3. Fu, Libi & Qin, Huigui & He, Yangjian & Shi, Yongqian, 2024. "Application of the social force modelling method to evacuation dynamics involving pedestrians with disabilities," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, vol. 460(C).
    4. Ning Ding, 2020. "The effectiveness of evacuation signs in buildings based on eye tracking experiment," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 103(1), pages 1201-1218, August.
    5. Kun Yang & Rachel A. Davidson & Humberto Vergara & Randall L. Kolar & Kendra M. Dresback & Brian A. Colle & Brian Blanton & Tricia Wachtendorf & Jennifer Trivedi & Linda K. Nozick, 2019. "Incorporating inland flooding into hurricane evacuation decision support modeling," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 96(2), pages 857-878, March.
    6. Guo, Chenglin & Huo, Feizhou & Li, Chao & Li, Yufei, 2023. "An evacuation model considering the phototactic behavior of panic pedestrians under limited visual field," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 615(C).
    7. Zhang, Jingjing & Zhao, Jincheng & Song, Zhensen & Duan, Liping, 2023. "Experimental and modeling study on evacuation behaviors considering small groups under different visibility," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 623(C).
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Fan Jiang & Ning Ding & Jiguang Shi & Zhenyu Fan, 2022. "Verify the Validity of Guidance Sign in Buildings: A New Method Based on Mixed Reality with Eye Tracking Device," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(18), pages 1-24, September.
    2. Gao, Dong Li & Xie, Wei & Ming Lee, Eric Wai, 2022. "Individual-level exit choice behaviour under uncertain risk," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 604(C).
    3. He, Yangjian & Fu, Libi & Chen, Qiyi & Zhang, Yu & Shen, Chenxin & Shi, Yongqian & Cao, Shuchao, 2024. "The effect of building bottlenecks on crowd dynamics involving individuals with simulated disabilities," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 654(C).
    4. Zhuang, Yifan & Zou, Xiaolei & Schadschneider, Andreas & Liu, Zhigang & Huang, Jiajun & Song, Xiaomin, 2025. "Intragroup dynamics and splitting characteristics of social group movement through a funnel-shaped bottleneck," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 658(C).
    5. Zhu, Yu & Chen, Tao & Ding, Ning & Chraibi, Mohcine & Fan, Wei-Cheng, 2021. "Follow people or signs? A novel way-finding method based on experiments and simulation," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 573(C).
    6. Ding, Heng & Wang, Qiao & Chen, Juan & Lo, Jacqueline T.Y. & Ma, Jian, 2024. "Investigating pedestrian stepping characteristics via intrinsic trajectory," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 652(C).
    7. Zhou, Zi-Xuan & Nakanishi, Wataru & Asakura, Yasuo, 2021. "Data-driven framework for the adaptive exit selection problem in pedestrian flow: Visual information based heuristics approach," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 583(C).
    8. Nie, Zelin & Guan, Yuxin & Cheng, Wei & Chen, Lingxiu & Xing, Ji & Chen, Xuefeng & Xue, Na & Yan, Jin & Deng, Wei & Cao, Qun, 2025. "Macro guidance-Micro avoidance model for on-site personnel emergency evacuation strategy in nuclear power plants under fear psychology," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 659(C).
    9. Haghani, Milad & Sarvi, Majid, 2018. "Hypothetical bias and decision-rule effect in modelling discrete directional choices," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 116(C), pages 361-388.
    10. Mao, Qinghua & Huo, Wenteng & Li, Zunshu & Liu, Xueying & Li, Yang & Wang, Heng, 2024. "Evacuation strategies for wrecked pedestrians considering emotional contagion and safety officers," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 640(C).
    11. Ding, Ning & Chen, Tao & Zhu, Yu & Lu, Yang, 2021. "State-of-the-art high-rise building emergency evacuation behavior," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 561(C).
    12. Vishal Singh & Anil Kumar Lohani & Sanjay Kumar Jain, 2022. "Reconstruction of extreme flood events by performing integrated real-time and probabilistic flood modeling in the Periyar river basin, Southern India," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 112(3), pages 2433-2463, July.
    13. Guo, Chenglin & Huo, Feizhou & Li, Chao & Li, Yufei, 2023. "An evacuation model considering the phototactic behavior of panic pedestrians under limited visual field," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 615(C).
    14. Li, Ruoyu & Wang, Xiang & Lovreglio, Ruggiero & Ding, Heng & Wang, Qiao & Chen, Juan & Jiang, Eric & Ma, Jian, 2025. "Influence of subsequent path and pressure on pedestrian route choice in emergency evacuations," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 657(C).
    15. Jafarian, Ahmad & Andersson Granberg, Tobias & Zanjirani Farahani, Reza, 2025. "The effect of geographic risk factors on disaster mass evacuation strategies: A smart hybrid optimization," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 193(C).
    16. Haghani, Milad, 2021. "The knowledge domain of crowd dynamics: Anatomy of the field, pioneering studies, temporal trends, influential entities and outside-domain impact," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 580(C).
    17. Haghani, Milad & Sarvi, Majid, 2019. "Laboratory experimentation and simulation of discrete direction choices: Investigating hypothetical bias, decision-rule effect and external validity based on aggregate prediction measures," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 130(C), pages 134-157.
    18. Guo, Chenglin & Huo, Feizhou & Deng, Shihan & Huang, Jianan & Zhang, Wei, 2024. "An evacuation model considering pedestrian group behavior under violent attacks," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 656(C).
    19. Qin, Sheng-Hui & Li, Na, 2024. "Study on pedestrian evacuation simulation model considering group behavior," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 654(C).
    20. Wei, Yixuan & Zhang, Yixing & Xu, Yifei & Wang, Shu & Liu, Jianguo & Jin, Longzhe & Ou, Shengnan & Pan, Song & Liu, Yiqiao, 2024. "Impact of risk preferences on evacuee behavior and attention distribution in urban underground space evacuations," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 640(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:651:y:2024:i:c:s0378437124005399. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/physica-a-statistical-mechpplications/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.