Well, lookie here, another group using virtual worlds for preparedness training... and another within the UM system!
The Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory (CATT Lab), a research center at the University Of Maryland, College Park, is teaming up with the I-95 Corridor Coalition and Forterra Systems, Inc. to develop a massively multi-player virtual incident management training system for transportation first responders.
The system will enable practical, scenario-based, interactive, real-time incident management training for up to 500 responders, trainers and “victims” simultaneously at a variety of locations.
Forterra Inc. designed the game engine, including capabilities for voice communications and 3-D interaction over the Web.
CATT Lab researchers, including undergraduate students from aerospace and mechanical engineering, computer science and art disciplines, worked with the Coalition to design the game’s scenarios, and are reprogramming the game engine to customize it to the Coalition's specifications.
http://elianealhadeff.blogspot.com/2008/02/serious-games-for-virtual-incident.html
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