Increasingly, we are seeing the use of various 3D visualisation technologies and techniques by owners and operators as part of a total facilities management approach. Microsimulations embeds a 3D vulnerability analysis methodology that rides on the back of these, adding an extra level of data as to the human, systems and physical vulnerability issues, and how these relate to each other over time, and throughout a particular space.
The approach is to demonstrate a matrix of potential vulnerabilities through the use of microsimulation.
Vital to developing a realistic simulation model is:
The objective is to meet emerging international requirements:
- Trying to model more accurately crowd movements and behaviours;
- incorporating different types of crowd and crowd members;
- including family or other small groups within simulation models, rather than just focusing on individuals; and
- modelling interactions between crowds and other groups, and between crowd members.
The Cabinet Office Emergency Planning College (2009) Understanding Crowd Behaviours: Simulation Tools. p.6