Title:
Evacuation protocols during wildfires – modelling resource allocations and the resident safety platform
Agreement Value:
$75,004.00
Agreement Date:
Sep 20, 2021 - Mar 31, 2025
Description:
This part of the project addresses the modelling of the resource allocations and the resident safety platform in communities threatened by WUI fires.
Existing tools for emergency evacuation modeling and resource planning have weaknesses including:
• Current support tools do not meet emergency services’ decision support needs.
• Most existing resource optimization tools are single-stage planning only (i.e., they do not address resident relocation and resource deployment), ignoring the multi-stage character of Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires.
• Integrated solutions for evacuation modelling and resource optimization do not exist.
This project component will address the aforementioned weaknesses and build an integrated Resident Safety Platform (RSP). The RSP will combine evacuation simulation and resource optimization in a way that the former will predict parameters used by the latter. The integrated platform can be used by stakeholders to determine wildfire evacuation and resource allocation policies in an evidence-based manner.
Organization:
National Research Council Canada
Expected Results:
In the short term, anticipated outcomes will be strengthened collaborations across industry, academia, and government to support research excellence. In the medium term, anticipated outcomes will be the development of new and potentially disruptive technologies with collaborators. In the long term, find collaborative solutions to public policy challenges and create stronger innovation systems.
Location:
Ottawa, Ontario, CA K1N 6N5
Reference Number:
172-2021-2022-Q3-979955
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Business Number:
119278877
Additional Information:
This agreement has been amended 1 time(s). The end date of this agreement has been modified by 192 days.
Amendment Date
Oct 2, 2024
Recipient's Legal Name:
University of Ottawa
Federal Riding Name:
Ottawa--Vanier--Gloucester
Federal Riding Number:
35081
Program:
Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program – Ideation Fund
Program Purpose:
The Ideation Fund is intended to encourage, test and validate transformative research ideas generated by teams of NRC scientific personnel and external collaborators with complementary capabilities, acting as a demonstration phase for a continually-evolving suite of research and development (R&D) deliverables at the NRC. The fund supports exploratory research through two mechanisms: the New Beginnings Initiative and the Small Teams Initiative.