Hasan, Samiul; Ukkusuri, Satish V. - In: Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 45 (2011) 10, pp. 1590-1605
Individual evacuation decisions are often characterized by the influence of one’s social network. In this paper a threshold model of social contagion, originally proposed in the network science literature, is presented to characterize this social influence in the evacuation decision making...