Simulation Analysis of a Wildfire Suppression System

• Tipo: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
• Data: 2012

Autores

Abilio Pereira Pacheco (Autor) FEUP; João Claro (Autor) FEUP; Tiago Oliveira (Autor) Outra

Ata de Conferência Internacional

Título: IV International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning and Policy: Climate Change and Wildfire

Páginas: 36-49

IV International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning and Policy: Climate Change and Wildfire

Mexico City, Mexico, 5-11 November 2012

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias

CORDIS: Ciências Sociais > Economia > Estudos de gestão > Gestão de tecnologia ; Ciências Sociais > Ciências políticas > Políticas públicas > Políticas tecnológicas

Outras Informações

Abstract (EN): Rekindles and false alarms are unusually high in the Portuguese wildfire management system, representing a high burden on suppression resources in particular, and fire management resources in general. In 20,049 occurrences that the suppression system handled in the summer of 2010, 12.5% were false alarms and 15.0% were rekindles. We present a discrete- event simulation model of a wildfire suppression system, designed to analyze the joint impact of primary fires, rekindles and false alarms on system performance. The work contributes to fill a research gap concerning that impact, and features a novel application of simulation to suppression systems, as screening tools to support more holistic analyses. The model was implemented in ®ARENA, and used for a study of a Portuguese district. We found that reducing false alarms and rekindles to benchmark values would significantly reduce pressure on firefighting teams, enabling more effective suppression operations.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica