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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"disaster evacuation"”.
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Applying heuristic traffic assignment in natural disaster evacuation: a decision support system
… the assignment process lasts a couple of hours. Evacuation planning and operation are well suited to the application of this real-time heuristic assignment method. Evacuation planning and operations are major activities in emergency management. Evacuation planning instructs people where to go, …
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Human Mobility Perturbation and Resilience in Natural Disasters
Natural disasters exert a profound impact on the world population. In 2012, natural disasters affected 106 million people, forcing over 31.7 million people to leave their homes. Climate change has intensified natural disasters, resulting in more catastrophic events and making extreme weather more …
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A decision support system for mass evacuation and emergency management
… makers make decisions while facing emergency or disaster evacuation conditions, that is, to build a decision support system for mass evacuation and emergency management. By combining MASSVAC2 and HEUPRAE2 analysis models, shortest path finding technique, computer graphic display technique, data …
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Prepositioning for flooding in the Sacramento region
California is a state prone to many natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires, and floods. The CAL EMA (California Emergency Management Agency) is in charge of planning for such events, and in coordination with other state and local agencies, CAL EMA prepositions resources to provide basic food, …
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The Capacity of the Black Protestant Church to Provide Social Ministry in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… ladder toward selfsufficiency. Because of the disaster, there was substantive loss of parishioners, financial resources, and program operational infrastructure that severely limited or destroyed faith-based capacity to serve. The purpose of the study is to examine what social vulnerabilities …
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An Integrated Agent-Based Microsimulation Model for Hurricane Evacuation in New Orleans
Mass evacuation of urban areas due to hurricanes is a critical problem that requires extensive basic and applied research. Knowing the accurate evacuation time needed for the entire region in advance such that the evacuation order can be issued on a timely basis is crucial for the officials. …
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Heterogeneous Decision-Making in Socio-Technical Systems Methodologies for Efficiency Measurement and Decision Analysis with Mixed Data
… and decision tree analysis—to predict household evacuation behavior in response to Hurricane Irma. It highlights adaptive decision-making under uncertainty and the value of linking behavioral insights with performance analysis. Empirical demonstrations focus on disaster evacuation as a …