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DS-5 Response Simulation across Regions: The response of large populations of the built
environment is characterized in this project for use in the visualization tool.
DS-6 Network Economic Loss: Deals with refined estimates of economic losses due to network
damage, taking into account time sequencing and a flexible spatial distribution of network
ingredients.
DS-7a Network Vulnerability Modeling: Aims to develop models for estimating the economic
and social losses due to damage to large and complex transportation networks including the effect
of disruption, down- and recovery-time and impact.
DS-7b Damage-Functionality Relations: Derives relationships between reduction or loss of
functionality on the one hand and level of damage on the other.
DS-8 Social-Economic Impact Assessment: Studies the effect of an earthquake on social and
economic impact measures in a region.
DS-9 Risk Assessment Modeling: Develops new risk assessment models through establishing
the relative merits of existing risk assessment approaches and applications results, leading to
improved risk and loss modeling procedures.
Core Thrust Area on Consequence Minimization (CM)
The set of projects included in the area of CM use the outcome from the DS damage assessment;
investigate and compare various measures of affecting the consequences through system intervention; and
employ decision making and land-use management, alongside societal impact studies to zoom on to the
most cost-effective consequence minimization measure to be applied to the system. The CM process also
includes consulting the risk visualization facilities in DS to assess the effect of the consequence reduction
measures proposed. The following CM projects are currently underway in the MAE Center:
• CM-1 Probabilistic Decision Support for Regional Risk Assessment: This gateway project
develops criteria for setting priorities for intervention and mitigation, based on optimization
algorithms that are applied cyclically to the system under consideration, taking into account
possible changes in its characteristics.
• CM-2 Acceptable Consequences: Evaluates the level of acceptable consequences from a societal
system viewpoint through developing reaction profiles and refining them based on field data,
leading to the development of a dynamic societal response model.
• CM-3 Network Retrofit and Rerouting Strategies: Develops procedures for balancing costbenefits
of retrofit and/or re-routing, to aid in decision making as to the most effective intervention
approach.
• CM-4 Structural Retrofit Strategies: Addresses the level and type of structural intervention for
populations of structure, to achieve a specified level of consequence minimization, by relating the
intervention technique to changes in structural characteristics and deriving intervention-sensitive
fragility relationships.
• CM-5 Multi-Hazard Application of Regional Damage Synthesis: A test bed project that
confirms and calibrates the damage synthesis module using a region, whose infrastructure system
and hazards can be easily defined.
• CM-6 Land Use Management: Minimizes consequences through the effective re-use of urban
spaces, including relocation of vulnerable and hazardous buildings, widening of transportation
arteries for emergency response and similar measures.