Essays about: "Community evacuation"
Found 5 essays containing the words Community evacuation.
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1. Integrating Fire Evacuation into the Building Information Modelling Workflow
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för BrandteknikAbstract : Building Information Modelling (BIM) is arising gradually as a useful methodology in the AEC field. One of the many benefits of BIM is coordination between stakeholders from multiple disciplines. However, the field of Fire Safety Engineering (FSE) is relatively lagging by its lack of integration into this digital workflow. READ MORE
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2. The Development of A Simple Engineering Calculation Method for Wildfire Scenarios
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för BrandteknikAbstract : Emergency planning is required to respond to the increasing wildfire threat. A part of this is to assess a community’s capacity to move to a safe place during wildfires. This can be achieved by calculating the time it takes for a community to evacuate from an at-risk area to a relatively safe place. READ MORE
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3. Validation of WUI-NITY compared to real-world data
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för BrandteknikAbstract : This thesis compares the wildfire evacuation simulation programme, WUI-NITY, against real-world data by analysing and comparing three wildfire events of the past. The wildfire events were all limited to be within the state of California and was further analysed based on the available quality of data derived of the chosen database. READ MORE
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4. Testing the wildland urban interface fire evacuation tool WUI-NITY: A case study of a rural community
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för BrandteknikAbstract : This thesis makes use of a freely available platform based on multi-physics simulations, named WUI-NITY, to model WUI fire evacuation. This simulation platform includes three sub-models addressing fire spread, pedestrian movement and traffic movement allowing the representation of their interaction to produce outputs useful for dynamic vulnerability assessment. READ MORE
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5. Forecast-based Financing within the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement: Persisting barriers and ways forward
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : With the introduction of Forecast-based Financing (FbF) in 2013, the ability and incentive to do early action based on forecasting has increased over the last couple of years. In this study eleven semi-structured interviews were conducted with FbF practitioners of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (RCRC) Movement with the purpose of shedding light on challenges and opportunities associated with the approach. READ MORE
