Authors : Dwi Handayani, Bertha Maya Sopha, Budi Hartono and M.K. Herliansyah
Abstract: Good evacuation planning is a crucial factor in the success of the evacuation. A well-planned evacuation could save thousands of lives, property and social infrastructure. This is in line with the objective of humanitarian logistics which is designing and controlling an effective and efficient system in order to alleviate the suffering of disaster victims. A currently existing problem is that is a policy to determine evacuation routes during the eruption of Mount Merapi has not been implemented systematically and quantitatively, so that the policy to determine evacuation routes is considered ineffective and inefficient. A quantitative planning is regarded better because it is more measurable which involves in-depth analysis based on various scenarios obtained from computer simulations. The method used in this research was analyzing literature review of several previous studies. The results of such literature review produced a flow chart of behaviours that consisted of five types of Mount Merapi community behaviuor in facing disaster evacuation. The flowchart of behaviour served as the basis for designing the Agent-Based Modeling (ABM), a computer simulation model, in which the model is the interaction of complex adaptive system that focuses on bottom-up approach.
Dwi Handayani, Bertha Maya Sopha, Budi Hartono and M.K. Herliansyah, 2017. The Behavioural Rules of People During Disaster Emergency Evacuation: A Case Study of Mount Merapi Eruption in Indonesia. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 5443-5451.