>A. Limited space in buildings and prohibition of extinguishing from inside
>houses:
>
>It's unrealistic that there is no restriction on the number of agents,
>esp. platoons, in buildings. It's even more unrealistic that fire brigades
>can extinguish from inside buildings.
>Of course, if we make such restrictions, we'll have big traffic jam
>problems. So probably there should be a way to give platoons, esp. fire
>brigades some more freedom to position themselves. For instance,
>1. agents could specify not only a road where they want to move to, but
>also a positionExtra on that road, allowing several fire brigades to
>choose good positions on the same street that are still in extinguishing
>range for a specific building
>2. blocking the movements of other agents could be relaxed: each platoon
>should only block one *lane*, not the whole road.
3. Empty blocks (buildings with zero levels) modelling squares, parks, etc,
which have the current unlimited restrictions.
>B. Refuges and stations burn like other buildings
>
>Apart from being much more realistic, this also emphasizes that civilians
>must be protected during the whole simulation and that the centers as a,
>well, central part of a team are in danger, too. By the way, the new fire
>simulator allows this feature to be switched on and off.
Pro
>C. Unknown number of civilians
>
>It is an unrealistic feature of the simulation that agents know the number
>(and IDs) of civilians in advance. To change this, an upper bound on the
>number of civilians could be given to the agents. Thus, there could be a
>fixed set of IDs reserved to civilians. Only when a civilian is actually
>sensed for the first time, it would become known to an agent that this
>civilian really exists.
>
>Side note: this would also allow that civilian agents are created
>dynamically by a new civilian simulator (as described in our proposal from
>Nov 9). When, for example, the simulator computes that some people are
>hurt during a mass panic, it would move from the simple network flow
>representation for these civilians to the classic "civs as agents"
>representation. These new agents could then be sensed, rescued and
>transported to the refuge.
Addition:
From research point of view I would also like to add rescue agents halfway
a simulation, so that the teams have to be reconfigured.
>D. Damage on the streets
>
>Both civilians and platoons are quite save on the streets in the current
>simulation. If we wanted to change that here's a couple of possibilities:
>- small injuries near burning buildings. The new firesim computes heat
>distributions also for the streets, so this would be easy.
>- civilians being trampeled down during a mass panic. Easy to implement
>with a network flow model (as proposed), but maybe also possible in the
>old model
>- if we had aftershocks, people on the entrance nodes of collapsing
>buildings or streets nearby would be in danger of being hit.
Not against.
This feature is strongly related with the traffic direction acti
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