A Collaborative Emergency Drill System for Urban Tunnels Using BIM and an Agent-Based Model

Abstract

With the rapid development of smart cities, the refined management of urban highway tunnels has put forward higher requirements for the emergency disposal ability of operation and maintenance personnel. This paper proposed a collaborative emergency drill system for urban tunnels using building information modeling (BIM) and an agent-based model. The objectives of this paper are as follows: (1) To help address the challenge of multi-person collaborative intelligent drills in complex emergency scenarios, this system constructed an emergency collaborative drill model and a virtual emergency scenario description method based on trait-based objects (TBOs). (2) To help address the challenge of the organization and integration of multi-source heterogeneous data in complex emergency scenarios, the system established an emergency scenario generation method through lightweight BIM data, standard emergency plan documents, and virtual emergency scenario data. The system was successfully applied to the Hongmei South Road Tunnel in Shanghai, China. The feasibility of the proposed system provided practical help for tunnel emergency management and was extended to other urban tunnels in Shanghai.