The Emergency Operations Research Center : disaster by design.

The Emergency Operations Research Center (EORC) is identified as a civil application of the simulation and system training technologies developed originally by SDC for military use. EORC capabilities permit anticipatory, integrated team training for a city's top management and associated staffs in terms of simulated emergency conditions (e.g., fire, flood, earthquake, hurricane, riot, nuclear attack, etc.). This provides, in a laboratory setting, an opportunity for the city's emergency operations team to evaluate and modify its plans, procedures, and performance in preparation for handling real emergencies. A potential application of EORC technology and capabilities to comprehensive urban and regional planning and development is suggested. This application deals with the possibility of testing, in advance, the impact of projected plans for urban change and growth upon the operations and management of public services and providing feedback from such simulated experience into the planning process itself