Prescriptive Simulation Scenarios for Hospitals Evacuation Management

The emergence of a large number of vulnerabilities and the growing interdependence of economic and social activities put vital networks in a particularly delicate situation. These networks constitute the critical infrastructures of which the security of one of them depends on the others. Being more and more interdependent, their failure can have catastrophic consequences on the whole. The main objective of this chapter aims to study the problem of the occurrence of an electrical failure in the hospitals and to provide anticipatory solutions as decisions to be taken and submitted to the stakeholders involved in the intervention in such critical situations. To this end, an emergency response management system was proposed and modeled by the creation of prescriptive and adaptive simulation scenarios. This system was realized via a web-mobile application. The latter, thanks to the advantages that offers, facilitates the tasks of the stakeholders, improves the quality of the communications, reduces the time required for evacuation, and therefore, limits the scope of the damage.