Wildfire, Traffic and People: Integrated Evacuation Platform for Planning, Management, and Education
Authors
PrimaryWadie Chalgham— University of California, Los Angeles · Wadie.chalgham@ucla.edu
Co-authorAli Mosleh— UCLA · mosleh@ucla.edu
Wildfires worldwide have become increasingly large and destructive in recent decades, resulting in catastrophic damage and evacuation failure. In the United States many communities lack the necessary planning strategies to optimize for successful fire evacuation. While some limited-capability technologies are emerging, no platform exists that combines fire spread, routing/ traffic, and human behavior models into a fully integrated model with realistic capability to meet the needs of stakeholders (city planners, emergency responders, resilience vegetation managers, community educators). The proposed project aims to develop such an integrated platform to realistically simulate site-specific wildfire evacuation scenarios for locations within the continental United States. The platform will provide a range of capabilities that would allow stakeholders to develop emergency evacuation plans, optimize evacuation routes, enhance emergency response coordination, implement mitigation strategies, and educate the public. The proposed project will address needed advancements in the state of the art in all three core models, fill essential data gaps, and offer innovations required for successful integration into a user-friendly computationally efficient platform as a decision support system. The program will be deployed in collaboration with a number of stakeholders for further evaluation and validation.
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