Dispatching and routing of emergency vehicles in disaster mitigation using data fusion

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-24

  Jotshi, Arun ^a   Gong, Qiang ^b   Batta, Rajan ^c  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b United Airlines   (United States)

^c University at Buffalo ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Data fusion dispatching; Emergency response services; Large scale networks; Routing; Simulation

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION; MODELING; TRANSPORT VEHICLE;

EID: 56949087197     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2008.02.005     Document Type: Article

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