A team from 91亚色鈥檚 (ADERSIM), led by Professors Adriano O. Solis and Ali Asgary from the , has made a lasting impact on the City of Vaughan鈥檚 Fire & Rescue Service (VFRS) and future city planning.
After receiving a grant from the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs in 2017, the ADERSIM team built local and international partnerships for a project titled 鈥淚gniting Insight: Using GIS and Analytics in the Fire Service.鈥
Over the past two years, the project has brought together colleagues from VFRS, Universidad Aut贸noma del Estado de M茅xico, the University of Calabria and the University of Genoa to develop a modelling and simulation tool used to examine performances of fire and rescue services and provide solutions for optimum use of resources. Results from the simulation have led VFRS to better evaluate community risks and consider improvements in its operations. Using predictive analysis of, as well as simulating responses to, more than 10,000 emergency incidents annually, the results that are generated and assessed will help determine the placement and allocation of fire stations and resources.
For implementing these operational innovations, VFRS Fire Chief Deryn Rizzi was presented the Bronze Innovative Management Award at the 2019 Institute of Public Administration of Canada鈥檚 71st annual conference, Public Sector Transformation: Action and Meaningful Change, in Winnipeg.
Pictured from left to right: Beth Bell (IBM Canada, vice-president, enterprise and commercial Canada), Chief Deryn Rizzi (Vaughan Fire & Rescue Service), Professor Adriano O. Solis (91亚色) and Scott Thompson (CEO, Institute of Public Administration of Canada)