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Modeling an ontology on accessible evacuation routes for emergencies [PDF]
, 2014 Providing alert communication in emergency situations is vital to reduce the number of victims. However, this is a challenging goal for researchers and professionals due to the diverse pool of prospective users, e.g.
Diaz, P. +15 more
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Evacuation versus shelter in place [PDF]
, 2022 Evacuation has long been the protective action urged by authorities upon residents threatened by an environmental hazard event. More recently, sheltering in place has been proposed to be more appropriate for particular hazards under some circumstances ...
Bearman, Chris +2 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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Evacuation of Rectilinear Polygons [PDF]
, 2010 We investigate the problem of creating fast evacuation plans for buildings that are modeled as grid polygons, possibly containing exponentially many cells. We study this problem in two contexts: the ``confluent'' context in which the routes to exits remain fixed over time, and the ``non-confluent'' context in which routes may change.
Sándor P. Fekete +2 more
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Communications, 2018 Evacuation is one of the main tasks of administration and its forces and resources in different types of extraordinary events, as well as natural and anthropogenic (non-military and military events) unusual/emergency situations.
Marcin Paweska, Jozef Ristvej
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Lessons from the evacuation of the World Trade Center, Sept 11th 2001 for the future development of computer simulations [PDF]
, 2005 This paper provides an overview of the state of the art in evacuation simulations. These interactive computer based tools have been developed to help the owners and designers of large public buildings to assess the risks that occupants might face during ...
C.W. Johnson, Johnson, C.W.
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Energies, 2023 The safe evacuation of residents near a nuclear power plant during a nuclear accident is vital for emergency response planning. To tackle this challenge, considering the dynamic dispersion of radioactive materials in the atmosphere and its impact on ...
Huifang Miao +4 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 On 22 December 2018, the volcanic eruption of Anak Krakatoa in the Sunda Strait, Indonesia, triggered a tsunami causing 437 deaths. The highest death toll and the second highest number of damaged houses were recorded in Panimbang.
Han Soo Lee +2 more
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Fire Evacuation of Elderly in High-Rise Residential Buildings in India
Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2022 The move towards high-rise buildings in metro cities to accommodate an increasing population has various cons. In high-rise buildings, fire is a huge disaster.
Kumar Ankit +3 more
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Emergency Planning for UAV-Controlled Crowd Evacuations
Applied Sciences, 2021 One of the most challenging problems during disasters involving crowds is pedestrian evacuation. It is very important in such situations to improve survival rates by getting all or most of the people out in the shortest possible time.
Afnan Alhindi +6 more
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