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Title | ||
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Evacuation support and safety confirmation sharing in disaster situations for school trips by mobile information system. |
Abstract | ||
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The recent earthquake in Japan showed that tourists cannot access evacuation information and the families of tourists experienced problems when accessing safety information related to tourists. Given these problems, we consider two issues related to information provision in disaster situations. The first issue is the lack of evacuation information for tourists. The second issue is the difficulty of confirming the safety of tourists and sharing their safety information with relevant people, including the tourist’s family. The present study focuses on developing a tourism information system to solve these issues. We refer to this system as an Educational Trip Support System (ETSS). The research subject is a school trip, which is a representative type of group tour that occurs in Japan. The objectives of the ETSS are to help students to escape to an evacuation area rapidly by providing evacuation information and to share safety confirmations with relevant people during disaster situations. We assessed the effectiveness based on a field test in a disaster-simulated situation and quantitative surveys. The major contributions of this study include (1) a description of a mobile application system for confirming safety during school trips and sharing information with relevant people, (2) a method to facilitate the rapid evacuation of students that saves time and reduces their concerns about the situation, (3) detailed evaluations of the performance obtained using ETSS. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2014 | 10.1007/s40558-014-0013-9 | J. of IT & Tourism |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Evacuation support, Global positioning system, Mobile information system, Emergency management, Disaster | Information system,Computer science,Public relations,Mobile information systems,Emergency management,Tourism,Natural disaster,Information provision,Global Positioning System,TRIPS architecture | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
14 | 3 | 1943-4294 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
1 | 0.36 | 13 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidekazu Kasahara | 1 | 4 | 2.45 |
| Koichi Kurumatani | 2 | 1 | 0.36 |
| Mikihiko Mori | 3 | 1 | 0.36 |
| Masayuki Mukunoki | 4 | 199 | 21.86 |
| Michihiko Minoh | 5 | 349 | 58.69 |