Mignon van den Berg - Everscape: 3D multi-‐user virtual environment for data collection on travel choice behaviour in case of a tsunami

15-03-2012

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Mignon van den Berg

Everscape

3D Multi-User Virtual Environment for Data Collection on Travel Choice Behaviour in Case of a Tsunami

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Introduction

•  Graduation project TIL

•  PhD project

•  Everscape

•  Discussion

Masterclass TIL/T&P

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Graduation project TIL

•  Bachelor: Industrial Design Engineering

•  Master: Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics

•  Graduated in: September 2009 •  Title: Pedestrian Interaction Behaviour

and its Relation to Doorway Capacity

Background information

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Graduation project TIL

Why this topic? •  Technical, more policy related, behaviour, or a combination? •  What do I find interesting courses / topics? •  Any topic in particular? For me: pedestrians •  Who do I want in my committee?

•  Pedestrian experiments à ask and look around!

Why at TU Delft? •  I already did an internship •  Do I want to do a PhD or not?

Why this topic and why at TU Delft?

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PhD project

Why do a PhD project? •  Royal Haskoning •  Interesting topic •  Started in November 2010

Travel choices people make during for example natural disasters Process: •  First year: literature study and research proposal •  Now: development of Everscape •  Later this year: final data collection to develop choice models

Travel Behaviour Modelling under Exceptional Conditions

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Everscape

Who developed it? •  PrendingerLab (National Institute of

Informatics, Tokyo, Japan) •  Helmut Prendinger, Eurico Doirado

• Transport & Planning (Civil Engineering, TU Delft) •  Serge Hoogendoorn, Hans van Lint, myself

What is it? •  3D multi-user virtual or serious gaming

environment

Who, what and why?

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Everscape

Data collection methods: 1.  Stated preference:

•  Hypothetical situation •  Is this what people do in reality?

2.  Revealed preference: •  Actual situation •  Hard to reconstruct the actual situation

Why has it been developed? • New data collection method

•  Detailed trajectory and event data •  Virtual experiment in combination with survey afterwards

Who, what and why?

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Everscape The experiment

‘Goal’ participants: • Going to an island to see a concert What will happen: • They arrive by helicopter • Then they drive to the concert by car • During the concert: earth quake and

tsunami •  In order to survive: evacuate!

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Everscape Evacuate

train

short route

long route

bridge

tsunami

heliport

concert

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Everscape

•  TRB: January 24

•  PLATOS: March 14

Movie

First experiments

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Everscape

•  Two sessions: 16 and 30 participants

•  Most people chose train and long route

•  6 people died, 5 of them were women

•  Those who chose to run did not survive

Most important: the method provides us opportunities to collect travel behaviour data!

TRB Experiment – some results

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Everscape

•  Improve data collection method!

•  Think about the following aspects: •  Realism •  Information provision •  Group/household behaviour: group participation •  Herding: include bots (‘extra people’)

•  Final data collection: September/October

The coming year

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Questions / Discussion

For questions: Mignon van den Berg [email protected] Room 4.40

Tips for choosing your graduation project: •  You can consider it as a test to find out

what you want to do after your graduation

•  You really need to like the topic and also consider what type of work / activities you want to do (e.g. data collection, modelling)

•  Decide who you want / don’t want in your committee, especially who you want as your daily supervisor

•  Ask and look around