GIS Applications
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UC Berkeley Emergency Evacuation Plan (May 2006)
Abstract: Emergency preparedness has long been a concern for planners and people professionally involve in its pre- and post-planning and relief efforts. The ability to respond effectively after a disaster has occurred, natural or man-made, hinge whether an emergency preparedness plan exist. This plan would have protocols, logistical coordination, and contingency of effective ways to assess and mitigate the chaos that is imminent during the few hours afterwards. The goals of this project was to:
- Develop an evacuation model to safely egress the campus population during emergency situations cause by natural disasters or man made.
- Identify key variables the model would use–building density, population types, danger zones, time and day–and potential problems.
- Use GIS to perform analysis of evacuation plans that would be fluid based on the identified variables.
This project was undertaken for UC Berkeley’s Office of Emergency Preparedness during a graduate City Planning course. Written in conjunction with Wintana Debessay and Nikki Folletta.
Click on the following links to view results from this study.
