Professor Bing Pan

Fellowship focus: Investigating the psycho-behavioural dynamics of crisis response in tourists.

 

This Fellowship will explore how tourists’ psychological traits shape their perceptions, motivations and risk-related behaviours during crises, and how these factors influence evacuation dynamics. Existing agent-based evacuation models typically treat tourists as homogenous agents who respond uniformly and instantaneously to evacuation orders, limiting behavioural realism. By explicitly modelling individual differences in decision-making under uncertainty and stress, Professor Pan and Professor Li’s research will produce more realistic simulations of tourist behaviour during emergencies, improving our ability to predict evacuation outcomes and inform the design of more effective risk communication and crisis management strategies.