An optimal evacuation route plan has to be established to overcome the problem of poor coordination and uneven distribution of vehicles before or during disaster. This article introduces the evacuation vehicle routing problem (EVRP) as a new variant to the vehicle routing problem (VRP). EVRP is a process of moving vehicles from a vehicle location to the potentially flooded area (PFA), and from ...

This paper empirically studies (i) forecasting emergency relief aid shipments and (ii) redesigning upstream humanitarian supply chains as means to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of disaster response. The United States Agency for International Development provided unique data about its emergency food aid shipments over a period of about eleven years. We find that while it is not possib...

University of Pittsburgh, Swanson School of Engineering 11.01.2016 1 Disclaimer—This paper partially fulfills a writing requirement for first year (freshman) engineering students at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering. This paper is a student, not a professional, paper. This paper is based on publicly available information and may not provide complete analyses of all rele...

Core setting region could facilitate disaster relief and strength communication among setting regions when emergent disaster happens. Shortest path search algorithms could be applied. Dijkstra algorithm is discussed and is improved to solve the confirmation of core setting region. It ensures that the core setting region is the nearest to the farthest region. The improved algorithm turns out to ...

A wireless sensor network contains many sensors that Spread in an environment and gather the information from their vicinity [1]. Wireless sensor networks are tremendously being used in different environments to perform various monitoring tasks such as search, rescue, disaster relief, target tracking and a number of tasks in smart environments. May be the location of sensors are not predefined ...

Some volunteer surgeons may be interested in providing care for civilian victims of war in developing countries. More commonly, volunteers will be increasingly confronted with nonintentional acute and chronic trauma cases, mostly from road traffic accidents. On rare occasions, they might even participate in the relief and reconstruction efforts after natural disasters. There are significant dif...

Didier Portilla,* Rachel N. Shaffer, Mark D. Okusa, Rajnish Mehrotra, Bruce A. Molitoris, Timothy E. Bunchman, and Tod Ibrahim *Department of Medicine, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas; American Society of Nephrology, Washington, DC; Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; Department of Internal Medicine, Harbor University of California–Los Angele...

This paper, based on the report "The State and Civil Society in Disaster Response: An Analysis of the Tamil Nadu Tsunami Experience," (Srinivasan, Nagaraj, & Venkatesh, 2005) is essentially an empirical analysis of state and civil society responses in Tamil Nadu (India) to the tsunami of December 26, 2004. It examines interventions by state and non-state agencies, as well as people's experience...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to explore a log of WhatsApp messages exchanged among members of the health care group Doctors For You (DFY) while they were providing medical relief in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake in April 2015. Our motivation was to identify medical resource requirements during a disaster in order to help government agencies and other responding organization...