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The Experience and Perceived Consequences of the 2016 Fort McMurray Fires and Evacuation
Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Few studies have examined the scope of the subjective experience during and after a natural disaster. This qualitative study explored the perceptions of persons affected by the wildfires and evacuation of Fort McMurray in 2016.
Laura Thériault +3 more
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Modification of Interaction Forces between Smoke and Evacuees
Energies, 2020 The most used fire effect models on evacuees are only focused on the physical capacity of the evacuees. However, some of the evacuees in a fire situation continuously move through the familiar route, although the familiar route is smoke-filled and they ...
Sungryong Bae +2 more
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Pedestrian Traffic Characterization Based on Pedestrian Response
IEEE Access, 2022 There are significant differences in pedestrian behavior between normal and emergency conditions. Further, this behavior varies with age. Therefore, in this paper, pedestrian behavior is studied during normal and emergency evacuation of two groups of ...
Shamsul Islam +4 more
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Transportation Research Interdisciplinary PerspectivesExtreme weather events and other hazardous events often require a range of strategies to safely shelter people, distribute resources, and facilitate recovery efforts.
Thayanne G.M. Ciriaco +3 more
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2015 The article reviews the industrial restructuring of the Saratov region on a war footing at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. The author shows some details of this process: the transfer of enterprises to produce defense products, accommodation and
Danilov Viktor Nikolaevich
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 IntroductionShelter allocation is one of the most important measures in urban disaster prevention and mitigation planning. Meanwhile, it is essentially a comprehensive planning problem combining resource allocation and traffic routing.
Yang Yin +3 more
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High-resolution human mobility data reveal race and wealth disparities in disaster evacuation patterns [PDF]
, 2020 Major disasters such as extreme weather events can magnify and exacerbate pre-existing social disparities, with disadvantaged populations bearing disproportionate costs.
Hengfang Deng +6 more
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The Cry Wolf Effect in Evacuation: a Game-Theoretic Approach
, 2019 In today's terrorism-prone and security-focused world, evacuation emergencies, drills, and false alarms are becoming more and more common. Compliance to an evacuation order made by an authority in case of emergency can play a key role in the outcome of ...
Mohlin, Erik +2 more
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An Immersive Virtual Reality Serious Game to Enhance Earthquake Behavioral Responses and Post-earthquake Evacuation Preparedness in Buildings [PDF]
Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2019 Enhancing the earthquake behavioral responses and post-earthquake evacuation preparedness of building occupants is beneficial to increasing their chances of survival and reducing casualties after the main shock of an earthquake.
Zhenan Feng +7 more
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