SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B: Knowledge-to-Action: Enhance Community Disaster Preparedness and Resiliency through Physical and Virtual Drills

该项目将采用社区能力办法来实现备灾和抗灾能力，以补充社区资本框架，该框架侧重于社区的资源供应。 共同国家评估框架的重点是社区为“吸收、恢复和更成功地适应不利事件”而通过和执行的政策和计划。国家合作框架以紧急情况管理的基本框架-减灾、备灾、救灾和恢复-为基础。为实现这一愿景，本项目的目标是建立一个跨学科、跨部门的知识转化为行动网络。该网络将共同开发新的社区-大学伙伴关系（CUP），以实现以证据为导向的解决方案，促进疏散准备，从而提高社区的复原力。这种参与的扩大使项目团队能够（1）举办虚拟KTAN研讨会，以共同设计物理现实/虚拟现实（PR/VR）演习和复原力计划;（2）制定准备的量化指标;（3）创建专注于人口细分的包容性活动。 该项目将（1）产生重大的社会影响，以吸引社区领导人，成员，应急响应人员，地方和州应急管理人员（EM）/事件指挥官（IC）和研究人员;（2）实现社会，工程和计算机科学的跨学科整合，在它们的交叉点激发新的想法。该项目弥合了现有的差距，连接理论框架和新兴工具，以帮助确定和评估社区准备和恢复力计划的差距。该项目特别使用PR/VR演习的组合，通过新的CUP验证疏散准备指标。该项目团队有两个目标：（1）开发一种用于PR/VR演习的适当技术，以测试疏散计划/程序的有效性，从而确定其中的差距;（2）对EM/IC进行调查，收集有关当局决策时间、分布以及EM过去在演习和实际疏散中的经验的数据，以确定如何更有效地设计演习来测试计划。主要创新包括：（1）新的跨部门KTAN，将理论研究转化为可操作的方案;（2）使用PR/VR演习来评估计划/程序的有效性;（3）创新地使用手机应用程序和前/后调查来收集参与者的移动和风险感知变化;（4）将酒店、特殊设施（例如，学校、医院、疗养院、监狱）和弱势群体（例如，残疾人、低收入者和部落社区）;（5）疏散时间估计（埃特）组件的准确估计。本项目将促进跨学科合作，开发新的社区应急方案，以加强社区的备灾能力和抗灾能力。本项目是对“B轨道- CIVIC创新挑战赛”的回应。与NSF和国土安全部合作的自然灾害恢复能力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。

This project will use a community capabilities approach (CCA) to achieve disaster preparedness and resilience that complements a community capitals framework (CCF) which focuses on the community’s availability of resources. A CCA framework focuses on the policies and plans that communities have adopted and implemented to “absorb, recover from, and more successfully adapt to adverse events”. The CCF is based on the fundamental framework of emergency management - hazard mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. To operationalize this vision, the objective of this project is to establish a transdisciplinary cross-sector knowledge-to-action network (KTAN). This network will co-develop new community-university partnerships (CUP) to enable evidence-driven solutions that foster evacuation preparedness and, thus, community resilience. This broadening of participation allows the project team to (1) hold virtual KTAN workshops to co-design physical reality/virtual reality (PR/VR) drills and resilience programs; (2) develop quantitative metrics of preparedness; and (3) create inclusive activities that focus on population segments. This project will (1) yield significant societal impacts to engage community leaders, members, emergency responders, local and state emergency managers (EMs)/incident commanders (ICs), and researchers; (2) achieve interdisciplinary integration of social, engineering, and computer science to spark novel ideas at the intersection of them. This project bridges existing gaps in connecting theoretical frameworks and emerging tools to help identify and assess the gaps in community preparedness and resilience programs. This project specifically uses a combination of PR/VR drills to validate indicators of evacuation preparedness through a new CUP. The project team has two goals: (1) develop an appropriate technology for PR/VR drills that tests the effectiveness of evacuation plans/procedures and, thus, identifies gaps in them; (2) conduct a survey of EMs/ICs to collect data on authorities’ decision-making times, distributions, and EMs’ past experiences in drills and actual evacuations to determine how drills can be designed more effectively to test plans. The key innovations are (1) the new cross-sector KTAN that translates theoretical research into actionable programs; (2) the use of PR/VR drills to assess the effectiveness of plans/procedures; (3) the innovative use of a phone app and pre/post surveys to collect participants’ movements and risk perception changes; (4) the inclusion of residents and visitors at hotels, special facilities (e.g., schools, hospitals, nursing homes, jails), and vulnerable groups (e.g., people with disabilities, low-income, and tribal communities); (5) the accurate estimation of evacuation time estimate (ETE) components. This project will foster interdisciplinary collaborations and develop new CUPs to enhance community disaster preparedness and resilience.This project is in response to Track B - CIVIC Innovation Challenge - Resilience to Natural Disasters a collaboration with NSF and the Department of Homeland Security.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.