A protocol for disaster data evacuation

Data is the basis of the modern information society. However, recent natural catastrophes have shown that it is not possible to definitively secure a data storage location. Even if the storage location is not destroyed itself the access may quickly ...

Immediately after a major earthquake strikes, a segment of the people in the disaster region must evacuate to relief shelters. If the evacuation proceeds in an efficient and safe manner, many lives can potentially be saved as the effects of ...

• An agent-based evacuation mechanism is developed to account for the profound uncertainty existing in the pedestrians’ behaviors and road damage situations.
• A two-stage stochastic model is proposed to find the optimal decisions on the ...

• Integrating the ridesharing concept into the disaster evacuation process.
• Developing three mixed-integer programming models for better efficiency and fairness.
• Comparing the feasibility of ridesharing evacuation models via ...

Evacuation models based on public transportation have been shown to increase network capacity for transportation systems while improving community and societal disaster preparedness. However, due to a lack of private vehicles and inconvenient ...