Mapping of Interdependencies Through Integrated Hazard Analysis: Study Case of a Canadian University Campus

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This paper presents a general description of a new integrated hazard analysis methodology to study interdependencies among critical infrastructures. This research project results as NSERC and PS Canada initiative to conduct a three year study entitled “Decision Coordination for Critical Linkages in a National Network of Infrastructures”. The overall purpose of our interdisciplinary team of researchers is to develop simulation and human interaction tools to better coordinate joint actions by various organizations before and during situations of large scale emergencies (e.g. earthquake events). The geographical location, diversity of stakeholders and infrastructure complexity of the University of British Columbia Point Grey Campus (UBC) provide interesting characteristics with which to develop, test and validate the theoretical framework and methodology behind our Infrastructures Interdependencies Simulator (I2Sim). The university is BC’s third largest employer with almost 10,000 full time residents and about 47,000 daily transitory occupants -students, faculty, and staff- interacting in a small area. As such, UBC shares the attributes of a small city. The 402-hectare campus on the outer western edge of Vancouver is geographically isolated from the urban area by the Pacific Spirit Park. None-the-less, UBC’s strong dependencies to its neighbors, the daily high traffic of people and goods, the presence of well defined and sparse residential, recreational and business areas, and its own utilities’ providers, create a valid scaled-system to test the ontology and analysis methodology. This work presents the findings of the integrated hazard evaluation of structural, non-structural, lifelines, electric grid, IT network and policy applied to the UBC campus, with earthquake scenarios.

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