Data collection plan

The key to efficient operations is not only the gathering of accurate information, but also its adequate presentation and dissemination that contributes to enhance a collective situational awareness.Especially during USAR operations, the collection and presentation of uncertain information from various sources is challenging. A Decision Support System called FRIEDAA has therefore been developed that additionally has the capability to fuse uncertain information about positive and negative results of search activities.

Simulations are conducted to examine egress performance of a museum floor plan for three scenarios: (1) expected occupancy load during peak hours; (2) group behaviors among museum visitors; and (3) measures to reduce pre-evacuation delay.Based on the building layout of a museum shown in Figure 20, we conduct a series of tests to analyze the effects of group behaviors and delay times on the egress performance of the museum

Simulation and questionnaires were used to capture the decision-making process of emergency managers during severe weather events. These data were combined with insights from emergency manager instructors, National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters, and experienced emergency managers to develop a descriptive decision-making model of weather information usage, weather assessments, and decisions made during severe weather.In addition to collecting responses from both the severe weather decision-making questionnaire and the post-scenario questionnaire, audio recordings from the simulated weather scenario were transcribed and coded.

Three tests:The first test is called General Test, and its purposes are to check (1) that the closest citizen with medical capabilities is asked to come for helping a citizen that asks for help, and (2) that the new affected location is updated in the map of the official services.The second test, called Only One Comes Test, is aimed at checking that each affected citizen is only assisted by one citizen with medical capability.The goal of the third test, called One By One Test, is to check that each citizen with medical capabilities is not simultaneously asked to attend several citizens.

case study for the Upper Danube region

Semi-structured interviews have been conducted in 2012–2013 with representatives of the French civilian protection community taking part in the emergency response (total of 8)

A total of 588 questionnaires were circulated, 194 were returned resulting in a response rate of 32.9%.Both quantitative and qualitative data was collected.As data was collected it was entered verbatim onto a Microsoft Excel database. Missing responses from the data were also noted in the database.

Included the 16 area hospital. These included a single Level I trauma center (TC), two Level 3 TCs, and 281 moulaged volunteers. Nine hospitals presented with less than 200 beds (range, 52Y162), whereas six presented with more than 200 beds (range, 220Y795).

The methodology is supported by the OSIRIS software, prototyped during the FP5 eponymous project and later distributed by CETMEF and the French basin authorities of Loire and Meuse. The methodology for the preparation of evacuation planswas applied on a pilot city of Theseus, Bordeaux on the estuary of Gironde (France), and the software used to calculate evacuation timeswas tried out on Cesenatico near the Adriatic coast (Italy).Data needed to apply them was queried either from national databases or from on-site interviews with citizens and local authorities.

Multiple informants were interviewed to generate different perspectives on strategic decision-making to ensure the findings were objective.Interviews were designed to yield two complementary types of information: (1) a description of the managers own understanding of shock events impacting the airport and (2) contextual details concerning strategic decision making before and after the shock event.