Decision Support System
for Large-Scale Evacuation
Logistics
Glossary
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT
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HISTORY OF THIS DOCUMENT
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GLOSSARY
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COLLECTION POINT
DANGER ZONE
EMERGENCY ACCOMMODATION
EVACUATION AND EVACUATION LOGISTICS
EMERGENCY AND SUPPORT FORCES ACCUMULATION POINT
HAZARD
GATHERING POINT
MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION
ROUTING POINT
STAKE
TASK FORCES
VULNERABILITY
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About this document
This document targets a common basis of terminology and its understanding defined by the
participating members.
History of this document
Date
Author
Changes
October, 24th. 2012
Sebastian Schmitt
Initial Version
November, 28th 2012
Flavien Audin
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Glossary
Collection Point
The place where people are meant to get together so that they can get picked up by the means
of transportation.
They can be special bus stop, located for example each 600m in the streets. Busses will be
used to evacuate the population to Emergency Accommodations.
Danger Zone
The geographical area(s) within which the people are in danger and need to be evacuated from.
This zone possibly consists of more than one (contiguous) area. To ease its communication in
course of the entire operation, those areas should be aligned to significant/popular landmarks
such as streets, buildings, etc.
Emergency Accommodation
The places where affected people are finally brought to. They can be thought of as hotels as
well as specially prepared schools or other public buildings.
Evacuation and Evacuation Logistics
Organized relocation of People, animals and material goods from an endangered zone to safe
region/shelters. This encloses the definition of those regions and shelters, as well as the
information, transport and lodging of the affected people. Evacuation Logistics thus copes with
planning, organizing and controlling all the tasks, resources, forces and information that are
involved in the process of an evacuation.
Emergency and Support Forces Accumulation Point
The places where the Task Forces are gathered after they have been alerted. They also serve
as places for technical maintenance.
Gathering Point
The place where people are brought to after they’ve got picked up at the collection points. Here,
first medical assistance and other basic infrastructure are provided. Furthermore, at the
Gathering Points, the first registration of people (who is coming from where and where is she/he
going to?) takes place.
Hazard
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The hazard is the probability of occurrence of a particular event (e.g. earthquake) within a
given time-period and geographic space
Means of Transportation
Cars, Busses and other vehicles (or even aircrafts) that are used to transport people.
Routing Point
see Gathering Point
Stake
The elements (e.g. people, buildings, infrastructures, services, processes, organisations, etc.)
that may be exposed to a given event (e.g. earthquake) and for which a scenario of impact is to
be studied.
Task Forces
People that are deployed in the course of an evacuation.
Vulnerability
The vulnerability term represents the degree of loss/potential damage/fragility of a particular
element or set of elements at risk (people, buildings, etc.) within a given territorial system
affected by a hazardous event and characterized by a given intensity or level.
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