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In urban area, popular and property is accumulated in a small area, potential risk of earthquake disaster in urban community is great. Pre-disaster emergency evacuation zoning has become a significant topic of disaster prevention and mitigation research. Based on the present layout of evacuation facilities and shelters as well as the evacuation demands in urban communities, a systematical methodology for occupant evacuation against earthquakes on community scale was developed by employing spatial analysis techniques of Geographical Information System (GIS). The methodology included the following aspects: the distribution analysis of emergency evacuation demands, the calculation of shelter space accessibility, and the optimization of evacuation destinations. This methodology was applied to Lujiazui Street in Pudong, a new district located in Shanghai, China. It was found that the proposed methodology could be used to formulate pre-event planning for earthquake disaster prevention and mitigation on a community scale, especially for organizing a rapid and smooth evacuation and optimizing the location allocation of shelters.
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This paper was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Project No. 40730526; 41071324), Shanghai Science and Technology Talent Project (Project No. 09QA1401800), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, PhD Program Scholarship Fund of ECNU (Project No. 2010033), and Doctor Foundation of Tian** Normal University (No. 52X09019). We gratefully acknowledge the thoughtful comments of the editor and reviewers.
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Ye, M., Wang, J., Huang, J. et al. Methodology and its application for community-scale evacuation planning against earthquake disaster. Nat Hazards 61, 881–892 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-011-9803-y
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