Abstract

Development of Residents Evacuation Support Information System
Track: Disaster Management and Emergency Response
Authors: Masahiro Arima, Yasuhiro Sugizawa, Eiji Nishikawa, Minoru Oda, Michitaka Arima

The purpose of this presentation is to show the possibility of developing an information management system for supporting residents to evacuate from their home to evacuation centers and help them inquire safety of their family members, relatives or friends. In order to overcome the sensitive subject of utilizing personal information, which is definitely needed to support residents, especially those who are vulnerable to disaster, in the case of emergency, we propose local governments to cooperate with local autonomous organizations such as "Jichikai" or "Chonaikai" or voluntary disaster prevention organizations. In this presentation, we introduce some results from experiments conducted in a series of earthquake drills in which procedure of registration at the evacuation center was automated by using QR code and evacuation status of registered residents are shown real-time on a digital house map. Residents evaluation for effectiveness of the proposed system are also presented.