An evaluation method of operational effectiveness for the emergency plans

Author

Huang, Y.Y. ; Wang, J.Y. ; Wang, J. ; Dai, Y.W.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Autom., Nanjing Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Nanjing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

22-24 July 2009

Firstpage

169

Lastpage

172

Abstract

It is difficult to select a feasible rescue plan from many plans when an emergency disaster is suddenly occurred. The main reason is that there is no well decision-making means to support. Considering the characteristics of the emergency disasters, an evaluation method on the operational effectiveness of the emergency plans is put forth. And the simulation of the emergency disaster process is adopted to collect the information about the disaster situation. Then some proper utility functions are built up to evaluate the operational effectiveness of the emergency plans. As an example, a scenario of a strong earthquake disaster is built, by means of the evaluation method, and the best alternative is finally gotten. The evaluation results show that the evaluation method is feasible and meaningful.

Keywords

disasters; earthquakes; emergency services; earthquake disaster; emergency plans; evaluation method; operational effectiveness; rescue plan; Cities and towns; Decision making; Disaster management; Earthquakes; Floods; Snow; Tornadoes; Uncertainty; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service Operations, Logistics and Informatics, 2009. SOLI '09. IEEE/INFORMS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3540-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3541-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOLI.2009.5203924

Filename

5203924