On 27 June 2015, flammable starch-based powder exploded at Formosa Fun Coast, a recreational water park in Bali, New Taipei, Taiwan, injuring 508 people, with 199 in critical condition. During the emergency medical distribution, two processes, casualty transportation and relief distribution, are poorly coordinated and performed. The medical relief distribution process can be described as vehicl...

The investigation addresses three main issues: The first concerns a study of the terrain relief classification for the purpose of composite sampling. The second issue concerns quality assessment models that are used to assess the quality of representa~ion pf ideal geometric primitives and of real terrain relief representation. The third issue concerns the performance of composite sampling when ...

Natural disasters and crisis are inevitable and each year impose destructive effects on human as injuries and damage to property. In natural  disasters and after the outbreak of the crisis, demand for logistical goods and services increase. Effective distribution of emergency aid could have a significant role in minimizing the damage and fatal accident. In this study, a three-level relief chain...

An optimal evacuation route plan has to be established to overcome the problem of poor coordination and uneven distribution of vehicles before or during disaster. This article introduces the evacuation vehicle routing problem (EVRP) as a new variant to the vehicle routing problem (VRP). EVRP is a process of moving vehicles from a vehicle location to the potentially flooded area (PFA), and from ...

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) is an emerging area that has a wide spectrum of critical applications like battlefield surveillance, emergency disaster relief systems, etc. Sensor devices used in such networks are designed to operate with limited resources. Therefore, they are simple to build, economically viable and can be deployed to closely interact with their environment. In order to reduce ...

The area of mobile ad hoc networking has received considerable attention of the research community in recent years. These networks have gained immense popularity primarily due to their infrastructure-less mode of operation which makes them a suitable candidate for deployment in emergency scenarios like relief operation, battlefield etc., where either the pre-existing infrastructure is totally d...

In recent years, wireless sensor networks have drawn great attention. This type of network is composed of a large number of sensor nodes which are able to sense, process and communicate. Besides, they are used in various fields such as emergency relief in disasters, monitoring the environment, military affairs and etc. Sensor nodes collect environmental data by using their sensors and send them...