Fire Protection Research Foundation

Purpose: the Purpose of This Grant Is to Make Improvements Into the Wui-nity Wui Fire Evacuation Model. Improvements Are Needed to Take the Previous Research and Develop Models That Can Be Implemented in Practice Including Better Integration of Inputs Into the Design and Planning Process and to Provide More Effective Integration of Wui-nity Output to Get Into Practitioner Hands Results That Are Accepted and Understood. Activities to Be Performed: the Activities to Be Performed Include Task 1: Development of Evacuation Sub-models Able to Include Microscopic Representation (e.g., Individual Vehicles). Task 2: Develop a Virtual Reality Experimental Technology That Can Gather Data on Evacuee Decision-making. Task 3: Develop of a Tool to Identify Scenarios to Be Examined. Task 4: Enhancements in the Model Interface.expected Outcomes: 1) the Outcome of the Research Will Be to Build a Tested, Calibrated, and Configurable Model That Can Be Used by Stakeholders to Assess Wildfire Evacuation and Performance in Real-world Situations. Intended Beneficiaries: the Primary Beneficiaries Are the Stakeholders, the Community Emergency Response Operations and Planning Personnel, Charged With Assessing Community Response to Wildfire Evacuation, and Developing Plans to Be Implemented. the Residents in Communities Affected by Wildand-urban Interface Fires and Subject to Evacuation Orders Will Benefit From the Improvements in Assessment and Planning to Provide Timely and Effective Communications and Optimized Evacuation Instructions. Subrecipient Activities: the Recipient Intends to Subaward $26,255 to GHD, $21,500 to Imperial College London, $42,585 to Lund University, $18,162 to the National Research Council Canada, and $25,262 to Rmit University to Support Various Co-investigators in Completing the Activities Listed.