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Northern B.C. Driving Study Aims to Improve Wildfire Evacuations
The simulator will measure how local drivers respond in normal and wildfire scenarios to help calibrate a traffic model for evacuation planning.
- PhD candidate Alireza Noory is recruiting adult volunteers from Prince George to drive UNBCSIM, a simulator recreating a section of Highway 97 North, to study driver behavior during wildfire evacuations.
- Current evacuation models often rely on general assumptions from other communities rather than region-specific data, prompting Noory to develop the simulator to provide evidence about how local drivers respond during wildfire emergencies.
- The team will validate simulator accuracy by comparing speed data with floating-car measurements, while measuring how drivers accelerate, brake, and adjust speed in typical and wildfire scenarios.
- Data collected will calibrate a computerized traffic model of Prince George, enabling city officials and emergency planners to examine evacuation travel times, congestion, and road closures before an actual emergency occurs.
- Noory received a Canadian copyright certificate protecting the simulator as original research software, positioning it as a repeatable framework other wildfire-prone northern communities could adapt for evacuation planning.
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