Vmasc Chief Operations Officer
Virginia Modeling, Analysis & Simulation Center

Mike Robinson

VMASC 1030 UNIVERSITY BLVD
SUFFOLK, 23435

Mike Robinson is the Director of 91制片厂's Center for Innovative Transportation Solutions. He has been at 91制片厂 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, 91制片厂, (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.