Vmasc Chief Operations Officer
Virginia Modeling, Analysis & Simulation Center
Mike Robinson
VMASC 1030 UNIVERSITY BLVD
SUFFOLK, 23435
Mike Robinson is the Director of Â鶹´«Ã½'s Center for Innovative Transportation Solutions. He has been at Â鶹´«Ã½ since 2004. His work is focused on simulations in three areas: transportation, evacuations, and pedestrian modeling. His work incorporates decision-making and behavioral influences.
Ph.D. in Modeling and Simulation, Â鶹´«Ã½, (2010)
M.S. in Physics, Naval Postgraduate School, (1987)
B.S. in Political Science, U.S. Naval Academy, (1980)
Research Interests
modeling and simulation, transportation operations, evacuations, pedestrian modeling, agent based models
Articles
- Foytik, P. and Robinson, R. M. (2017). Weighting critical infrastructure dependencies to facilitate evacuations. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
- Elzie, T., Frydenlund, E., Collins, A. and Robinson, R. M. (2015). Conceptualizing intragroup and intergroup dynamics within a controlled crowd evacuation.. Journal of emergency management (Weston, Mass.) 13 (2) , pp. 109-20.
- Collins, A., Frydenlund, E., Foytik, P. and Jordan, C. A. Generic Incident Model for Investigating Traffic Incident Impacts on Evacuation Times in Large-Scale Emergencies. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.