e-Sanctuary: open multi-physics framework for modelling wildfire urban evacuation
(2017) In Fire Protection Research Foundation- Abstract
- The number of evacuees worldwide during wildfire keep rising, year after year. Fire evacuations at the wildland-urban interfaces (WUI) pose a serious challenge to fire and emergency services and are a global issue affecting thousands of communities around the world. But to date, there is a lack of comprehensive tools able to inform, train or aid the evacuation response and the decision making in case of wildfire. The present work describes a novel framework for modelling wildfire urban evacuations. The framework is based on multi-physics simulations that can quantify the evacuation performance. The work argues that an integrated approached requires considering and integrating all three important components of WUI evacuation, namely: fire... (More)
- The number of evacuees worldwide during wildfire keep rising, year after year. Fire evacuations at the wildland-urban interfaces (WUI) pose a serious challenge to fire and emergency services and are a global issue affecting thousands of communities around the world. But to date, there is a lack of comprehensive tools able to inform, train or aid the evacuation response and the decision making in case of wildfire. The present work describes a novel framework for modelling wildfire urban evacuations. The framework is based on multi-physics simulations that can quantify the evacuation performance. The work argues that an integrated approached requires considering and integrating all three important components of WUI evacuation, namely: fire spread, pedestrian movement, and traffic movement. The report includes a systematic review of each model component, and the key features needed for the integration into a comprehensive toolkit. (Less)
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- Ronchi, Enrico LU ; Gwynne, Steven MV ; Rein, Guillermo ; Wadhwani, Rahul ; Intini, Paolo LU and Bergstedt, Albin
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- publishing date
- 2017
- type
- Book/Report
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- wildfire, wildland-urban interface, WUI, fire safety, evacuation, egress
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- Fire Protection Research Foundation
- issue
- 22
- pages
- 608 pages
- publisher
- Fire Protection Research Foundation Quincy, MA
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- 2017
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 1413ec45-290a-4c42-80f0-919d0257b8b8
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