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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Hurricane Sandy"”.
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Agent-based Modeling for Recovery Planning after Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy hit New York City on October 29, 2012 and greatly disrupted transportation systems, power systems, work, and schools. This research used survey data from 397 respondents in the NYC Metropolitan Area to develop an agent-based model for capturing commuter behavior and adaptation after …
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After retreat : buyout programs and local planning goals after Hurricane Sandy
State run home buyout programs are becoming increasingly popular as a means to mitigate flood damage to homes within floodplains. However, there are many local benefits associated with buyout programs, including the removal of services from the neighborhood, increased flood protection for adjacent …
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Buyouts as resiliency planning in New York City after Hurricane Sandy
… New York State buyout program was created after Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 in response to pressure from landowners who had been flooded in the storm. New York City declined to participate in a buyout in response to Sandy but offered to acquire storm-damaged homes in other areas where the New …
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Beaches, People, and Change: A Political Ecology of Rockaway Beach after Hurricane Sandy
… restoration practices of Rockaway beach post-Hurricane Sandy as a lens to investigate tensions between nature and society on urban coasts. By focusing on this New York City beach, this dissertation aims to examine the interaction between the beach, residents, city and federal agencies, and …
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Piping plover habitat and demography following storm-induced and engineered landscape change
… sandbars, and lakeshores. In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy storm surges cleared vegetation and opened old and new inlets through Fire Island and Westhampton Island, New York, creating plover habitat. Storm effects prompted an island-wide stabilization project, and certain sections of Fire …
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A fuzzy logic-based text classification method for social media
… media and human-affected events. This study uses Hurricane Sandy 2012 related Twitter text data to conduct information extraction and text classification. Considering that the original data contains different topics, we need to find the data related to Hurricane Sandy. A fuzzy logic-based approach …
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Urban design as problem solving : design thinking in the rebuild by design resiliency competition
Following Hurricane Sandy in 2012, federal, state, and local governments initiated a series of disaster relief and recovery programs. These efforts were criticized for their lack of coordination, and fueled the public opinion that not only were coastal cities increasingly at risk for storm events …
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Taxis as pervasive resilience sensors
… the transportation infrastructure resilience to Hurricane Sandy. The analysis indicates that Hurricane Sandy impacted traffic conditions for more than five days, and caused a peak delay of two minutes per mile. Practically, it identifies that the evacuation caused only minor disruptions, but …
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Human Mobility Perturbation and Resilience in Natural Disasters
… mobility patterns in NYC under the influence of Hurricane Sandy. Using the data collecting system developed in the first project, I collected 12 days of human mobility data from NYC. The data set contains movements during and several days after the strike of Hurricane Sandy. The results showed …
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Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) habitat selection, survival, and migration on New York barrier islands following natural and engineered habitat changes
… predation, coastal development, and disturbance. Hurricane Sandy reached the Northeast United States in October, 2012. The storm breached and overwashed two barrier islands of New York that support breeding piping plovers, Fire Island and Westhampton Island. In response to geomorphic island …
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Hurricane and human-induced habitat changes on Fire Island and Westhampton Island, New York, and the effects on breeding piping plovers (Charadrius melodus)
… sea level rises, and anthropogenic activities. Hurricane Sandy (October 2012) modified the Atlantic coast of the United States. On Fire Island and Westhampton Island, New York, multiple overwashes and three breaches occurred. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers filled two breaches, increased dune …
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Commute Travel Changes and their Duration in Hurricane Sandy's Aftermath
Hurricane Sandy struck the New York City-New Jersey region on October 29, 2012, with severe consequences to the transportation network, including both the road network and the transit system. This study used survey data from nearly 400 commuters in the New York City Metropolitan Area to determine …
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Analysis of Post-Sandy Single-Family Housing Market in Staten Island, New York
Recent hurricanes have made it clear that housing is the single greatest component of all losses in terms of economic value and buildings damaged. Housing damage resulting from floods has increased in the United States, despite local, state and federal encouragement to mitigate flood hazards and …
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Asthma-Related Health Outcomes in New Jersey After a Natural Disaster Event
… occurrence of a natural disaster event such as a hurricane may further hinder the asthma management of asthmatic individuals. Unmanaged asthma has led to increased work absenteeism, preventable emergency department visits, costly hospitalizations and possibly death in severe cases. To improve …
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Morphological Change of a Developed Barrier Island due to Hurricane Forcing
… (Bay Head, NJ, USA) caused by erosion during Hurricane Sandy (2012) is evaluated using the numerical model, XBeach. Three main objectives of this work are to evaluate the wave-force reducing capabilities of a buried seawall, the effects of bay surge on morphological change and the …
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Statistical and machine learning models for critical infrastructure resilience
… on power systems through the case study of Hurricane Sandy as it impacted the state of New York. We find a correlation between Twitter data and load forecast errors, suggesting that Twitter data may provide value towards predicting impacts of disasters on infrastructure systems. Based on …
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Time-efficient Evacuation Routing Algorithm Incorporating Contraflow
<p>In emergency situations such as hurricane Sandy, an effective evacuation plan possibly with contraflows is required. In order to achieve an effective evacuation plan, evacuation time and computation time need to be short. In this thesis two aspects of evacuation algorithms are discussed: minimum …
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Data extrapolation in social sensing for disaster response
… the New York City crisis in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in November 2012. Results show that consistently good predictions are achieved. The work is unique in addressing the bi-modal nature of damage propagation in complex systems subjected to stress, and offers a simple solution to the …
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Citizens Excepted: Limits of Belonging and Statelessness in The United States
… citizens in New York City who were impacted by Hurricane Sandy. I investigate the nexus of statelessness and citizenship in the United States to explore the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion under late modernity.</p>
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