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The R.E.S.C.U.M.E.
Impact Assessment work includes three tracks:
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•For INC-ZONE and RESP-STG, the assessment includes an
evaluation of the prototype that was demonstrated in Maryland on November 13,
2014 through interviews with test participants.
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•In terms of impacts of INC-ZONE and RESP-STG, the IA team
is using modeling and simulation with the US 101 San Mateo Corridor to
compare baseline performance measures (i.e. without R.E.S.C.U.M.E.) to
performance measures with R.E.S.C.U.M.E. (i.e. with the incorporation of the
INC-ZONE & RESP-STG functionalities). The unit benefits (or impacts)
observed from the San Mateo simulation (i.e. for one incident) would be
extrapolated to a regional level, and in this case the region would consist
of the state of Maryland, since the demonstration occurred there, and the
stakeholders involved in the prototype development were from that region. We
will talk in more details about the simulation analysis of INC-ZONE &
RESP-STG in the coming slides.
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•For EVAC, the impacts are assessed through modeling and
simulation using the Greater New Orleans evacuation model, with the TRANSIMS
software. New Orleans was chosen because it provided actual data from a major
evacuation event (that is Hurricane Katrina) as a baseline. Therefore, the
baseline scenario will be the Katrina scenario (without any EVAC
functionalities), while the various R.E.S.C.U.M.E. scenarios will include the
coding of the EVAC functionalities in order to ultimately compare the
performance with EVAC to the performance without EVAC, and thus assess the
value of the application and its potential.
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•The R.E.S.C.U.M.E. Impact Assessment team is led by Booz
Allen Hamilton (Team lead: Gustave Cordahi).
Booz Allen is conducting the assessment of INC-ZONE & RESP-STG.
While a team comprised of Booz Allen, AECOM, and Prof. Brian Wolshon of LSU
is working on the EVAC assessment.
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