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Title:

Toward an Alternative Approach for Roading Organizations Emergency Management Training and Research: Exercises Observation and Game-Based Scenario Simulation

Accession Number:

01157009

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Emergency management data can be scarce and biased due to response priorities, compiling processes and time spans between event occurrence and data collection. Such limitations are heavily associated with natural and man-made disasters been the most reliable sources of information for emergency management research. This paper presents a synergic method to collect data by observing and simulating emergencies. This combined approach originated from the need to have additional experiences to support research by not uniquely relying upon real events or big scale emergency simulations, which can be too sporadic and costly. Road organizations were defined as the main case study due to their vital role in emergency response and recovery. A five-step observation observed seven exercises in New Zealand and conducted pilot simulations with numerous volunteers. Data collected using the proposed method, indicated promising results to model extreme event decision-making as well as potentials to generate knowledge for decision support. The method has also shown opportunities to be applied as a cost efficient emergency management training tool due to low development and implementation costs.

Monograph Accession #:

01147878

Report/Paper Numbers:

10-3005

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Dantas, Andre
Seville, Erica
Giovinazzi, Sonia

Pagination:

14p

Publication Date:

2010

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2010-1-10 to 2010-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures; Maps; References (24) ; Tables (2)

Geographic Terms:

New Zealand

Subject Areas:

Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2010 Paper #10-3005

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 25 2010 11:28AM