Title :
An empirical choice of risk assessment indexes of transportation system under extreme weather disasters and its application
Author :
Binfeng, Sun ; Mingyong, Lai ; Erbao, Cao ; Yang, Zhou
Author_Institution :
Appl. Econ. Mobile Station for Postdoctors, Hunan Univ., Changsha, China
Abstract :
With the adequately analysis of attribution and forming mechanics of the extreme weather disasters, such as gale, hail, rainfall and drought in Hunan Province, 32 theory indexes covered weather background, population, economy and transportation system was chosen. In order to selected right indexes, an empirical study is conducted by subject degree analysis and importance analysis based on large sample data from questionnaires of exerts in this area. The evaluation system consisting of 21 indexes from 4 dimensions of the background of weather disasters, the hazard evaluation of disasters, measures for recover and the vulnerability of stricken things is constructed at last. The evaluation result of winter storm disaster in Hunan Province proves its feasibility.
Keywords :
disasters; risk management; transportation; disaster; hazard evaluation; risk assessment; transportation system; Frequency measurement; Geologic measurements; Humidity; Indexes; Marine vehicles; Roads; Weight measurement; evaluation system; risk assessment indexes; the extreme weather disaster; transportation system;
Conference_Titel :
Emergency Management and Management Sciences (ICEMMS), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6064-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICEMMS.2010.5563400