WUI-NITY: a platform for the simulation of wildland-urban interface fire evacuation

Fire Protection Research Foundation report: “WUI-NITY 2: The Integration, Verification, and Validation of the Wildfire Evacuation Platform WUI-NITY"
Authors: Enrico Ronchi, Jonathan Wahlqvist, Arthur Rohaert, Adam Ardinge Lund University; Steve Gwynne, Movement Strategies, UK; Guillermo Rein, Harry Mitchell, Nikolaos Kalogeropolulos, Imperial College London, UK; Max Kinateder, Noureddine Bénichou, National Research Council, Canada; Erica Kuligowski, Aaron Westbury, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia; Amanda Kimball, National Fire Protection Research Foundation USA. 
Date of issue: December 2021

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WUI-NITY 2: The Integration, Verification, and Validation of the Wildfire Evacuation Platform WUI-NITY

The work in WUI-NITY 2 aimed at making the WUI-NITY tool credible (through rigorous testing), possible (by working with stakeholders to ensure the model is accessible and configurable), and valuable (by enhancing the model output to provide insights not generated elsewhere, i.e. trigger buffer designs and vulnerability assessments).

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Authors: Enrico Ronchi and Jonathan Wahlqvist, Lund University, Sweden; Steve Gwynne, Movement Strategies, UK; Max Kinateder, Noureddine Benichou, and Chunyun Ma, National Research Council, Canada; Guillermo Rein and Harry Mitchell, Imperial College, London, UK; Amanda Kimball, Fire Protection Research Foundation
Date of issue: April 2020

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WUI-NITY: a platform for the simulation of wildland-urban interface fire evacuation

This report introduces a modelling platform, called WUINITY, for the simulation of human and fire behaviour during a wildfire evacuation at the wildlandurban interface (WUI). The scope of this platform is to enhance the situational awareness of responders and residents in evacuation scenarios providing information on the dynamic evolution of the situation.

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Authors: Enrico Ronchi, Steven Gwynne, Guillermo Rein, Rahul Wadhwani, Paolo Intini and Albin Bergstedt
Date of issue: December 2017

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e-Sanctuary: Open Multi-Physics Framework for Modelling Wildfire Urban Evacuation

The present work describes a novel framework for modelling wildfire urban evacuations. The framework is based on multi-physics simulations that can quantify the evacuation performance. The work argues that an integrated approached requires considering and integrating all three important components of WUI evacuation, namely: fire spread, pedestrian movement, and traffic movement.

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