Project Title: The evolution and intervention mechanism of psycological reaction and emergency evacuation behavior of large-scale crowd in unconventional emergency

Principal Investigator: Prof. Sun Jinhua

Funding Source: National Natural Science Foundation of China

Project Period: 2011-2013

Abstract:　Large scale crowd in unconventional emergency is a typical complex system. The study on such system is important for scientific research and application. In this project, some typical behaviors of large scale crowd are explored in the viewpoint of both management science, information science and psychology. The study is focused on information, psychology and evacuation behavior of crowd, as well as their interactions. Main contents of the project include: understanding the crisis communistion network and its collaboration by exploring the information communication and its evolution; studying the influence of information communication on people psycology; building evacuaiton model and inducement method coupling psycological behavior; developing multi-target tracking, prediction and intervention method, and investigating the methodology system and platform of virtual & real space cooperation system; finally testing and integrating these results in a province-level emergency platform. In the microscopic level, study the information communication and psycological behaviors; in macroscopic level, understand the behavioral tendency of large-scale crowd. Combining micro and macro scale, reveal the evolution and intervention mechanism of psycological reaction and emergency evacuation behavior of large-scale crowd, provid basic method, data and scientific reference to the management of unconventional emergency.