GIS Based Route Guiding System for Optimal Path Planning in Disaster/Crisis Management

Natural events on our earth such as landslides, earthquakes, floods and hurricanes can be hazardous human lives as well as man made social setups (buildings roads and other installations). In developing countries like Pakistan the destruction demonstrated in disasters resulted by natural hazards, is mostly lack of action to anticipate and mitigate the potential damage of these events. In disasters it is very much important to minimize the casualties and the damages to human lives caused by disasters. To do so it is necessary to start relief work and relief aid on time at the affected site. To supply the relief work and relief aid on the affected area, selection of suitable route is very much important. In this paper we presented a GIS based guiding system for route decision making