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-education efforts and vertical-evacuation strategies, emergency managers need to understand how much time it could take for a coastal …-distance algorithms and accounts for variations in land cover and directionality in slope is the most realistic of an actual evacuation …
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Pedestrian evacuation modeling for tsunami hazards typically focuses on current land-cover conditions and population … distributions. To examine how post-disaster redevelopment may influence the evacuation potential of at-risk populations to future … modeled travel time estimates conform well to the fatality patterns of the 1964 event and that evacuation travel times have …
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also need information on the potential for successful evacuations and how this evacuation potential varies among …-reduction strategies, such as education and training in areas where evacuations are plausible and vertical-evacuation structures in areas …
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Several coastal communities on the North Island of New Zealand were evacuated during the 2009 Samoan Tsunami warning. This study aimed to explore the risk perception and preparedness levels of a small cohort of people living in an at-risk area. Qualitative data were collected using...
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appraising possible risk reduction interventions, specifically looking at enabling the timely evacuation of the area. This … for tsunami risk reduction in Padang through the development of a pedestrian and vehicular evacuation model and the … appraisal of possible solutions to enhance the evacuation rates. Some of the conclusions from this research can be applied to …
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determine locations and times within the tsunami inundation zone where evacuation during the tsunami inundation is not possible … population density to compute the potential number of casualties. This information is useful in developing tsunami evacuation …
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is used to assess people’s evacuation speed, applying a geospatial evacuation modeling approach to the city of Lisbon …. The detailed dynamic population exposure assessment allows producing both daytime and nighttime evacuation time maps …, which provide valuable input for evacuation planning and management. Results show that a significant amount of population is …
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