POPULATION BEHAVIOR, SOCIAL NETWORKS, TRANSPORTATIONS, INFRASTRUCTURES, INDUSTRIAL AND URBAN SIMULATION

Crisis prevention and management are critical tasks for a public administration. In facts, a complex system such as a city could be difficult to keep under control, even in regular conditions, while respect emergencies it is very hard to finalize good preventive and operational plans. In order to succeed in such tasks, it is necessary to have proper support tools, capable to evaluate alternatives and predict effect of decisions in different conditions. To address such issues, the authors developed PONTUS (Population Behavior, social Networks, Transportations, Infrastructures and Industrial & Urban Simulation) which combines ability to model natural disasters with advanced human behaviors of the population.