Classification of socio-psychological aspects of protecting soft targets: a case study for the evacuation of railway terminals
Abstract
Current crisis management approaches to protect soft targets make assumptions about average visitors/listeners/viewers or passengers. They do not give much consideration to the impacts of the diversity of potentially evacuated persons with regard to socio-psychological parameters/factors that may lead to practical problems and complications during the evacuation itself.
At the same time, soft target operators have various means of machine vision tools at their disposal, but do not use these records for more thorough analysis of evacuation planning needs. Based on this observation, the article identifies and analyzes socio-psychological aspects that may significantly affect the behavior and decisions of persons during evacuation, and thus total evacuation time.