OBJECTIVE Children's summer camps are at risk for multiple pediatric casualties during a disaster. The degree to which summer camps have instituted disaster preparedness is unknown. We assessed disaster preparedness among selected camps nationally for a range of disasters. METHODS We partnered with a national, web-based electronic health records system to send camp leadership of 315 camp orga...

Research on evacuation from natural disasters has been published across the peer-reviewed literature among several disparate disciplinary outlets and has suggested a wide variety of predictors of evacuation behavior. We conducted a systematic review to summarize and evaluate the current literature on demographic, storm-related, and psychosocial correlates of natural disaster evacuation behavior...

Etta D. Pisano , Henry Fuchs, Andrei State, Mark A. Livingston, Gentaro Hirota, William F. Garrett and Mary C. Whitton a Departments of Radiology, The University of North Carolina { Chapel Hill School of Medicine and College of Arts and Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, USA b Computers Science, The University of North Carolina { Chapel Hill School of Medicine and College of Arts and Sciences, Chapel H...

Many events such as large-scale activities and traffic accidents could cause an increase in vehicle density area, which makes the evacuation of vehicles important. However, existing methods are not efficient limit to multi-vehicles sequences or destinations. In this paper, we introduce a novel dynamic weighted road network model for route planning. Based on model, planning algorithm can obtain ...

This paper describes HICAP (Hierarchical Interactive Case-based Architecture for Planning), a general purpose planning architecture that we have developed and applied to assist military commanders and their staa with planning NEOs (Noncom-batant Evacuation Operations). HICAP integrates a hierarchical task editor, HTE, with a conversational case-based planning tool, NaCoDAE/HTN. In this applicat...