Effective Evacuation Route Strategy for Emergency Vehicles

Abstract

Rapid response and recovery efforts are critical to emergency and disaster management. It is important that rescue teams need to arrive at incident location within a short time to minimize the risk and damage. The effective evacuation route estimating algorithm is developed for complicated unstructured road network based on the Dijkstra algorithm. The proposed system will estimate the optimal evacuation route for emergency services and vehicles such as fire service vehicle, ambulance and police car. It is also provided to search the near relief area and guiding to move the safe place through the optimal evacuation route assessment. The nearest emergency service is estimated by extracting surround services system. The haversine distance is applied for measuring between two locations. The optimal route is computed from service center to the incident location after estimating the nearest emergency services. Yangon’s complex road network is selected to implement the proposed web-based application system.