An intelligent disaster management system based evacuation strategies

Abstract

The increasing urgent need of emergency response systems cannot be underestimated due to the many manmade and natural disasters in recent years, such as the recent Philippines storm, Typhoon Haiyan 2013, and September 2001 attacks. The transportation and telecommunication systems have witnessed a great improvement throughout the last decades. In our previous works, we proposed and evaluated an intelligent disaster management system based on emerging ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) technologies with a focus on transportation environments; the proposed system used Vehicular Ad hoc Network and Cloud computing technologies. Given this trend, in this paper, we investigate the potential of the proposed system to improve the transportation evacuation strategies. We develop a tool to facilitate the use of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) measures in simulated evacuations. An increase in the possibility of saving lives and properties has been noticed when modelling the impact of a disaster on a city data based on applying evacuation strategy plan such as Demand Strategy (DS). Substantial benefits in terms of improved and balanced traffic flow are achieved.

A smart disaster management system for future cities

“…Consequently, the proposed smart system enables the disaster management center to suggest and recommend a range of suitable evacuation strategies and there is an opportunity to change the strategy according to the real-time information. In previous works, we develop and evaluate a tool to facilitate the use of ITS measures in simulated evacuations [25]. Here, in this paper, two different evacuation strategies are applied simultaneously.…”

Afet Yönetimi ve Kablosuz İletişim Sürekliliğine Genel Bakış

“…[1] Alazawi ve ark. [22], ulaşım tahliyesinin iyileştirilmesi için bir afet yönetim sistemi önermişlerdir. Önceki çalışmalarındaki araç tasarsız ağ ortamıyla bağlantılı olarak burada da afet yönetim sistemlerinin araç içi sistemlere entegre edilmesi hedeflenmiştir.…”

Development of an Emergency Response Management using Mobile Devices for Hospital Infrastructures Affected by Power Grid Failures

“…The evacuation management is considered as a complex task as it comprises many problems arising during the evacuation process (Alazawi, Alani, Abdljabar, & Mehmoud, 2014). A successful evacuation depends upon the teamwork, the leadership and the coordination between all the involved providers as mentioned in (Figure 3).…”