IAS Seminar: An evacuation simulation model for large scenarios and short warning times based on MATSim
Referent: | Dr.-Ing. Gregor Lämmel, Institut für Land- und Seeverkehr, TU Berlin |
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Zeit: | Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2012, 15.00 Uhr |
Ort: | Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Besprechungsraum 1, Geb. 16.3, R. 107 |
Ankündigung als pdf: | IAS Seminar "An evacuation simulation model for large scenarios and shortwarning times based on MATSim" |
The evacuation of whole cities or even regions represents a complex problem for transport planning. The urgency of this problem was demonstrated recently by the flooding of parts of Bangkok or the evacuation of large areas in northeast Japan after the 9.0 megathrust earthquake followed by a devastating tsunami and a subsequent breakdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
This talk discusses an approach dealing with large-scale evacuations on the microscopic level. Obviously, there is a tradeoff between being microscopic precise and being capable computing large scenarios. A simulation model is discussed that can deal with evacuations exceeding 1,000,000 evacuees. The performance of the model is shown based on a tsunami evacuation scenario for
the city of Padang in Indonesia.
The talk addresses implementation details of the simulation model, different evacuation strategies for large scenarios, and discusses some limitations coming from the simplifications the model makes as well.
Anyone interested is cordially invited to participate in this seminar.