Flood evacuation

This project simulates the process of evacuation of people living on the coast during the coming flood. People can survive outside the water level and they can save themselvs by climbing on the hills.

• Project name: Flood evacuation
• Class: 4IT495 Simulation of Systems (WS 2014/2015)
• Author: Kristýna Gubišová
• Model type: Agent-based simulation
• Software used: NetLogo 5.0.1

Global variables used in this simulation

• Actual flood height - actual-flood-height
• Start flood - start-flood?
• Start evacuate - start-evacuate?
• Rise count - rise-count
• Low - low
• High - high
• Range - range
• Xlow - xlow
• Xhight - xhigh
• Xrange - xrange
• Old position - old-position

Terrain creation:

• Number of hills before diffuse - number-of-hills-before-diffuse
• Number of diffuse repeating - number-of-diffuse-repeating
• Number of people - number-of-people

Flood parameters:

• Maximal flood height - max-flood-height
• Flood height step - flood-height-step
• Rise speed - rise-speed

Detailed description of the simulation

Buttons

Setup - Setup the model of the simulation, create the hills and diffuse them of the country and create citizens(agents).

Go - Brings this simulation to life

Start flood - this button causes an increase of the water level, thereby generate a flood

Start evacuate - this button will begin evacuation of the citizens due to flooding

Start flood & evacuate - combines the functions of the buttons start flood and start Evacuate together

Sliders

Terrain creation parameters:

• number-of-hills-before-diffuse - generate how many hills before diffuse appear in simulation
• number-of-diffuse-repeating - generate how much will hills be smoothly aligned
• number-of-people - simply generate how many people will be living in this world

Flood parameters:

• max-flood-height - defines how maximum height of the flood (the highest points flooded)
• flood-height-step - defines how much increase the water level
• rise-speed - speed of the rise dependent on ticks.

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