Spatial Knowledge Construction for the Fire Accident Process of the Long Road Tunnel

There are many kinds of public transportation systems, e.g. Xue-shan tunnel, high-speed railway, and airport shuttle are developed in Taiwan recently. The risk hidden in the space of long road tunnel could cause serious life loses and transportation system damage. Therefore, how to prevent and decrease the impact of disaster should be considered for the disaster precaution and security management in the long road tunnel area.The paper conducts an approach to the spatial knowledge construction of decision making support for fire disaster treatment in the long tunnel. The approach is based on the ontology method that assumes three levels of information integration, e.g. application domain, abstract context, and operational context. The application domain is described with an application ontology using the formalism of scenarios in long tunnel disaster. The disaster events are described with an abstract context that is obtained as a result of the slicing operation on the application ontology. Finally, filling the abstract context with triggering information and responding information produces an operational context. Both types of contexts share the same knowledge representation formalism that is used by the application ontology. As a result the operational context can be considered as a constraint satisfaction problem. * Corresponding author. Dept. of Civil Eng., MhUST, No.1, Hsin-Sing RD., Hsin-Fong, HsinChu, 304 Taiwan.