Integrated Simulation and Information Sharing System for Disaster Mitigation

Abstract

When a huge disaster occurs, many phenomena, not only physical one like land-slides but also human factors like evacuation and rescue, emerge and influent with each other. In order to mitigate damages from such a disaster, we need a tool to understand and to investigat the disaster as a whole. I have been joined several research projects for disaster mitigation in Japan, in which we have been developing an integrated disaster-and-rescue simulation framework and a disaster mitigation information sharing platform. A key concept of these framework and platform is modularity and integration. Because no researcher can be a specialist of all phenomena of the disaster, we need a simple and flexible framework to combine simulation technique for each phenomenon. I show several example of application of these works like fire-fighting, traffic under disaster, and evacuation from terrors.