The effects of transportation network failure on people's accessibility to hurricane disaster relief goods: A modeling approach and application to a Florida case study

Natural Hazards

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1619-1634

  Horner, Mark W ^a   Widener, Michael J ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Computation; Disaster relief; GIS; Hurricanes; Networks; Simulation; Transportation

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISASTER RELIEF; HUMANITARIAN AID; HURRICANE EVENT; MODELING; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80255123779     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9855-z     Document Type: Article

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