Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2021, 23(3):F71-F82 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2021.3.F71-F82

Classification of the Socio-Psychological Aspects of Protecting Soft Targets: a Case Study for Evacuation of the Railway Terminals

Alena Šplíchalová ORCID...1, Tomáš Karásek ORCID...1, Tomáš Apeltauer ORCID...2
1 Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
2 Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic

Current crisis management approaches to protect soft targets make assumptions about average visitors/listeners/viewers or passengers. They do not give much consideration to impacts of 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, the 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 the socio-psychological aspects that may significantly affect behavior and decisions of persons during the evacuation and thus total evacuation time.

Keywords: evacuation; socio-psychological aspects; protection of soft targets; station terminal; bomb threat

Received: September 18, 2020; Accepted: November 24, 2020; Prepublished online: March 30, 2021; Published: July 1, 2021  Show citation

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Šplíchalová, A., Karásek, T., & Apeltauer, T. (2021). Classification of the Socio-Psychological Aspects of Protecting Soft Targets: a Case Study for Evacuation of the Railway Terminals. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 23(3), F71-82. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2021.3.F71-F82
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