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How civil engineers met social scientists: An interdisciplinary evacuation simulation model

Abstract

Climate change and environmental crises are challenging existing infrastructures, because we are not designing for the new normal. To minimize the impact and improve live safety from this change, we developed an interdisciplinary simulation platform that answers research questions in various disaster scenarios. In this seminar, we will introduce how did we collaborate with social scientists to develop this interdisciplinary platform that integrates social-psychology components, hazards, and built environment to analyze how human decisions, behaviors, and infrastructure impact emergency evacuation results during a disaster.

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Speaker Bio

Dr. Chen Chen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for US Army Corps of Engineers. He conducts research in the areas of infrastructure resilience, disasters, transportation safety, and mobility. Specifically, Chen is interested in the consideration of human decision and behavior in complex systems for emergency preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery. He leverages interdisciplinary studies with people from psychology, public policy, computer science, and engineering at Oregon State University to advance our understandings of how to make our transportation system safe, efficient, sustainable, and resilient.

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