Resilience

Resilience

Our lab is developing a decision-support system for emergency evacuations. This decision-support system is expected to help stakeholders to gain useful information for policymaking and to develop intervention strategies. This system is co-developed with international experts in evacuation modeling, including Ruggiero (Rino) Lovreglio (Massey University, New Zealand), Erica Kuligowski (RMIT, Australia), Daniel Nilsson (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), and Tom Cova (University of Utah).

For any questions regarding this system, please contact Xilei Zhao (xilei.zhao@essie.ufl.edu).

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Funding

  • Early-Career Research Fellowship (Human Health and Community Resilience Track)
  • X. Zhao (Sole PI)
  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (The Gulf Research Program)
  • Jun, 2022 – May, 2024

 

  • Survey of Evacuation Behavior in the 2021 Boulder County, CO Grass Fires
  • X. Zhao (co-PI), X. Yan (PI), E. Kuligowski (co-PI), T. Cova (co-PI), R. Lovreglio (co-PI), D. Nilsson (co-PI)
  • Natural Hazards Center
  • Mar, 2022 – Sept, 2022

 

  • Developing AI-Based Wildfire Evacuation Behavior (AI-WEB) Models
  • X. Zhao (PI), E. Kuligowski (co-PI), R. Lovreglio (co-PI), D. Nilsson (co-PI)
  • NIST
  • Oct, 2021 – Sept, 2022

 

  • Determining Optimal Protective Actions in Earthquakes with Data Science Techniques
  • X. Zhao (UF PI), T. Cova (PI)
  • NSF/USGS
  • Aug, 2021 – Jul, 2022

 

  • A Highway Vehicle Routing Dataset During the 2019 Kincade Fire Evacuation
  • X. Zhao (PI), Y. Xu (Student co-PI), R. Lovreglio (Senior Personnel), E. Kuligowski (Senior Personnel), D. Nilsson (Senior Personnel)
  • Natural Hazards Center
  • Jun, 2021 – Oct, 2021

 

  • Analyzing Wildfire Evacuation Behavior with GPS Data
  • X. Zhao (PI), R. Lovreglio (co-PI), D. Nilsson (co-PI), K. Nguyen (co-PI), E. Kuligowski (Senior Personnel)
  • NIST
  • Sept, 2020 – Aug, 2021

 

  • Modeling of Evacuation Behavior in the 2019 Kincade Fire, Sonoma County, California
  • X. Zhao (PI), R. Lovreglio (Senior Personnel), E. Kuligowski (Senior Personnel), D. Nilsson (Senior Personnel)
  • Natural Hazards Center
  • Feb, 2020 – Dec, 2020

 

  • Community-Driven Evacuation Planning and Scheduling
  • X. Zhao (PI), R. Liu (co-PI)
  • Florida Sea Grant
  • Feb, 2020 – Feb, 2021

 

  • An IoT-enabled Critical Infrastructure Information Network for a Future Resilient City
  • X. Zhao (co-PI), R. Liu (PI), X. Yu (co-PI)
  • The Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER)
  • Jan, 2020 – Jun, 2020