Disaster Management in Malaysia: An Application Framework of Integrated Routing Application for Emergency Response Management System

Malaysia has experienced various disasters either natural or manmade disaster. One of the critical phases in disaster management system life cycle is response phase. In this phase, connectivity analysis such as a navigation service to help emergency rescue (ER) units reach at disaster area on time is necessary. Nowadays, commercial navigation system seems not appropriate to be used by ER units as they have different preferences. In addition, location information that is vital was not fully utilized in disaster management, especially in doing multi-task analysis. Thus, the real potential of GIS technology in managing spatial data including real-time (moving objects) data of ER units may influence the quality of the service. However, the services should be supported by a good data model. In order to eliminate inappropriate information, incomplete data, and overloaded information from database management system (DBMS) sent to the user, this paper will present the framework of integrated routing application for emergency response units embedded with context-aware.