Users Guide - the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center

Real Time Evacuation Planning Model (RtePM)A Decision Support Tool for Emergency Managers and First RespondersUsing RtePM Evacuation Planning ToolYou should now see a window with two repositories for evacuation scenarios (Figure 3). They are titled“My Private Scenarios” (upper half) and “Public Scenarios” (lower half). Within both repositories arecolumn headings titled as follows: “Name” (scenario title), “Simulation Results” (evacuation duration)and “Last Modified” (date and time last edited). The “lock” icon, , in the Public Scenarios window inthe lower repository indicates the scenario is locked and can only be edited by the creator. An additionalicon, , not shown indicates another user is currently editing a scenario. This feature prevents morethan one user from editing a scenario at the same time. Also note that the “New” and “Import” buttons atthe bottom of the window are the only available options at this time. Accessing the full range of optionsis discuss on the following pages.Figure 3Clicking on the right-pointing triangles to the left of each evacuation time (Figure 4) expands the“Simulation Results” column. The icons, and indicates the simulation was successfullycompleted and the simulation has changed since the displayed result was provided, respectively.Figure 43