Author Bios (50 Words for each Author)

Sunkyung Choi, specially appointed lecturer (associate professor)

Sunkyung Choi is a specially appointed lecturer (associate professor) at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. She has earned Ph.D. in transport planning and engineering. Her research interest includes tourism crisis management, tourism statistics and big data analysis, airport operation, and information provision and evacuation modeling.

Rajali Maharjan

Rajali Maharjan is a research fellow at Japan Transport and Tourism Research Institute in Tokyo. She has Ph.D. in engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Has research experience and interest in the fields of tourism crisis management, evacuation modeling, humanitarian logistics, disaster management, supply chain network design, and sustainability and resilience of supply chains.

Tran Thi Nhat Hong

Tran Thi Nhat Hong earned a master’s degree in Transportation Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. She proposed a methodological framework for evaluating impact of information provision with regards to sign and language availability on evacuation behavior of tourists in Japan.

Shinya Hanaoka

Shinya Hanaoka is one of Japan’s leading experts on air transport, transport logistics, and transport development studies. As an internationally acclaimed researcher, he has published more than 200 international and national scientific papers and conducted several consulting activities with private firms. Along with this, he was invited for committee members of government’s major projects on this area especially on airport operation and management in Japan. He has collaboratively worked with outstanding universities and institutes all over the world such as The University of Leeds, The University of British Columbia, AIT, Chulalongkorn University, and so on.

Abstract (150 Words)

Japan as a disaster-prone country needs to prepare enough evacuation planning and information provision for tourists during emergencies. International tourists differ from residents in language skills, awareness of potential hazards, and familiarity with the geographic layout which makes them more vulnerable. This study aims to investigate the information provision and evacuation behavior of international tourists in tsunami by an agent-based evacuation model, Morris screening, and a case study in Minato Bay in Osaka. The results indicate that there are differences in the arrival rate and time and that international tourists face more difficulties delaying their arrivals to shelters. Information provision in multiple languages and shelter capacity expansion were found to be significant factors affecting arrival rate and time highlighting that increasing shelter capacity and information provision in multiple languages can enable timely evacuation of international tourists.

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Evacuation behavior of international tourists and information provision during disasters: Case study in Osaka, Japan

Japan as a disaster-prone country needs to prepare enough evacuation planning and information provision for tourists during emergencies. International tourists differ from residents in language skills, awareness of potential hazards, and familiarity with the geographic layout which makes them more vulnerable. This study aims to investigate the information provision and evacuation behavior of international tourists in tsunami by an agent-based evacuation model, Morris screening, and a case study in Minato Bay in Osaka. The results indicate that there are differences in the arrival rate and time and that international tourists face more difficulties delaying their arrivals to shelters. Information provision in multiple languages and shelter capacity expansion were found to be significant factors affecting arrival rate and time highlighting that increasing shelter capacity and information provision in multiple languages can enable timely evacuation of international tourists.