Citation

Nigam V, Jethoo AS. Disaster Adv. 2013; 6(6): 80-87.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Shankar Gargh)

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Abstract

In this paper a study on the earthquake response operations and pre-planning and post-planning methodologies for the earthquake in highly populated urban areas has been carried out. It focuses on the substantial use of transportation system in urban areas to carry out real time responses during earthquake. A concept of disaster response routes to minimize the response time and a shortest path finding algorithm have been used to determine the shortest routes to deliver the first responders, first aid commodities, medical facilities to the affected areas and for the transportation of casualties to the hospitals, Dijkstra's shortest path computer algorithm is used in this study to minimize response time during emergency. This study deals with the issue of pre-planning of the supply of first-aid commodities (medicine, food, clothing, pure water, power, machinery, etc.) and emergency personnel to disaster affected areas by building a generic modeling framework to be used in case of earthquake. Since Dijkstra's algorithm is easy to implement and when it is implemented as the priority queues or Fibonacci heaps, it runs more efficiently and gives precise results in real time applications. This algorithm is applied on the road network of Malaviya Nagar Territory in Jaipur city.