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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Emergency Response Planning"”.
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A System-wide Planning Tool to Evaluate Access from Crash Sites to Medical Facilities in Virginia
Crash response planning is a vital component of emergency management and highway emergency response planning. Evaluation of coverage of medical facilities is required to determine adequate access from crash sites to medical facilities. This study proposes a proof of concept for a planning tool that …
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Improving team's consistency of understanding in meetings : intelligent agent participation and human subject studies
… result in immediate subsequent action, such as emergency response planning, all participants must share a common understanding of the decisions reached by the team in order to ensure successful execution of their mission. Thus, detecting inconsistencies in understanding among meeting …
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Human and modeling approaches for humanitarian transportation planning
… more effective supply chain management during emergency response. Planning and prioritizing the use of trucks and helicopters to transport humanitarian aid to affected communities is a key logistics challenge. This dissertation explores ways to improve humanitarian transportation planning by …
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Wind- and thermal-driven air flows and the buoyancy and advection effects on air exchange within urban environments
… be applied to increase pedestrian comfort and emergency response planning. In this study we focus on thermal effects on urban air flows. The thermal effects are extended beyond what is found in the literature to better understand the thermo fluid processes within urban areas. A field experiment …
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Investigating Multidimensional Factors Affecting Water Supply Resilience to Disasters
… factors are: disaster precaution; predisaster planning; data availability, data accessibility and information sharing; staff, parts, and equipment availability; pre-disaster maintenance; and governance. The identified factors and their indicators were tested for the case of Christchurch, New …
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The Facility Location Problem
… of this study was to analyze the location of an emergency facility location within a town based on given information from the village and to use the results to determine the optimal location for an emergency facility. A model of the problem was developed using a spreadsheet and computer program …