Interest for technical solutions related to the modelling of dependencies and cascading effects for emergency management in crisis situations

This survey takes place within the European Commission Funded FP7 projects which deal with understanding, modelling and managing cascading effects in crises: CascEff (http://casceff.eu/), PREDICT (http://www.predict-project.eu), SNOWBALL (http://snowball-project.eu/), CIPRNet (https://www.ciprnet.eu/316.html) and FORTRESS (http://fortress-project.eu/)
You are invited to answer this survey because you have been identified as expert or actor involved in the management or the preparation of crisis situations. Could you please take 15 minutes of your time to answer this questionnaire whose aim is to identify your interests for technical solutions (tools) related to the modelling of dependencies and cascading effects for emergency management in crisis situations.
Terminology clarification
Cascading effects are defined as the impacts of an initiating events where: (a) system dependencies lead to impacts propagating to other systems (through system dependencies, an originating system is then damaging an impacted system), (b) the combined impacts of the propagated event are of greater consequences than the root impact, (c) multiple stakeholders and/or responders are involved.

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Question 1

Thank you to enter here your Enter your name

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Question 2

Indicate your email

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Question 3

indicate your country

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Question 4

Indicate your region

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Question 6

Your role in emergency management

Planning

Preparation

Response

Recovery

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Question 7

In your current activities, do you use several tools for modelling and managing cascading effects in crises?

Yes

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Question 8

If "yes" to Q6, on which level do you use the tools for interventions?

Strategy

Tactics

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Question 9

If "yes" to Q6, In your municipality/region/country, do you use the same tools everywhere?

Yes

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Question 10

If "no" to Q8, specify on which criteria depend the tools

On geographical area

On types of originating and impacted system (transport, energy, chemistry, sanitation, healthcare, public'…)

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Question 11

If you use tools, what do you miss in the current toolset to properly manage risks with cascading effects before, during and after incidents

Real-time assessment of the impacts

Visualization map of the dependencies

Assessment of dependencies between systems

Buffer-time of effects between originating system or event and impacted system

Other answer

Question 12

If you use tools, specify your preferable way of implementation

Open source, free usage

Commercial with helpdesk

Standalone application

Internet-based application

Using a GIS

Integrated into your current tools

o As a service: an expert on call 24/7 to support you with tool and knowledge

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Question 13

If you use tools: how are new tools introduced in your organisation?

Proposals by IT department

Demand from top-level manager

First test by end-user community within the organization

Demonstration of powerful tools in external event

Through policy by higher authority

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Question 14

If you use tool, If budget is not an issue, what would be the main reason to decide on implementing new tools?

Complementarity with existing tools

Technical fit to integrate with existing tools/datasets

User experience of the tool

Minimization of user input requirement

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Question 15

More generally, would you be interested in the following solutions?

Modelling the dependencies between different systems (transport, sanitation, energy, telecommunication, healthcare, finance and public) sharing a common geographical area

Visualization of dependencies between originating and impacted systems

Scenarios modelling where systems are categorized as originating or impacted systems

Assessment of the percentage of functionality loss of the different systems and their damages

Assessment of the endurance-time of each system so that you know the potential time you have to prevent further escalation

Visualization of impacts for worst-case escalation scenario represented according to systems' endurance-time and to emergency management time

Not interested by any solutions

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Question 16

If interested in one of the solutions of Q14, specify your preferred format to import/export data

Xml (default for many office-productivity tools)

Shp (ArcGis compliant)

Ascii / raster (R compliant)

Dbf (Access, Excel, ArcGis compliant)

Kmz, kml (google earth compliant)

Mif-mid (MapInfo compliant)

E00 (ArcGis compliant)

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Question 17

which function in your organization would benefit most of such a tool?

fire and rescue

Police

Authorities

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Question 18

Please specify when you would use the tool:

In pre-planning to a crisis (more focusing on risk management)

In preparation phase to a crisis (training and exercising)

During the crisis

After the crisis

Question 19

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Interest for technical solutions related to the modelling of dependencies and cascading effects for emergency management in crisis situations

Thank you to enter here your Enter your name

Indicate your email

indicate your country

Indicate your region

Indicate your position

Your role in emergency management

In your current activities, do you use several tools for modelling and managing cascading effects in crises?

If "yes" to Q6, on which level do you use the tools for interventions?

If "yes" to Q6, In your municipality/region/country, do you use the same tools everywhere?

If "no" to Q8, specify on which criteria depend the tools

If you use tools, what do you miss in the current toolset to properly manage risks with cascading effects before, during and after incidents

If you use tools, specify your preferable way of implementation

If you use tools: how are new tools introduced in your organisation?

If you use tool, If budget is not an issue, what would be the main reason to decide on implementing new tools?

More generally, would you be interested in the following solutions?

If interested in one of the solutions of Q14, specify your preferred format to import/export data

which function in your organization would benefit most of such a tool?

Please specify when you would use the tool:

Feel free to add any other expectations not available in this survey