Modeling and Simulation of Catastrophic Events Affecting Critical Infrastructure Systems

Critical infrastructure systems are very important to the socioeconomic stability of any nation and the overall well-being of humans. However, those infrastructure systems are vulnerable to the distractive forces of natural and anthropogenic episodic events. In response to security and safety concerns related to the infrastructure new applied computing methodologies have been developed for training of law enforcement and security personnel, improving assessment tools for first responders, detailing mitigation and evacuation planning, and providing realistic analysis of various emergency scenarios. Those methodologies involve development of simulation, animation and visualization computer applications for disaster prevention, response and mitigation. These applications can also assist in incident analysis, and planning of massive emergency evacuation and transportation. The applications involve an integrated combination of a variety of software packages. This study describes some infrastructure safety and security projects that utilized a combination of different software such as Auto Cad, Adobe Photoshop, Global Mapper, ArcGIS (ESRI), Di-Guy (Boston Dynamics), Presagis (MultiGen-Paradigm), and AIMSUN.