Citation

Hou P, Hsu Y. J. East Asia Soc. Transp. Stud. 2005; 6: 77-90.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies)

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Abstract

Transportation is one of the most important functions that a network provides. However, those functions may fail due to ruined links caused by earthquake disasters. We took emergency paths as our strategies to connect demand and supply nodes. The used links under various replaceable paths were considered factors causing the job to succeed. We used passed probability as index to represent the ability of every link. When the probabilities of some links are relatively higher, they are claimed dominant links. Enumeration algorithm was used to calculate the probability of every link. With respect to three activities: fire rescue, medical rescue, and logistics supply, we can identify the essence of every link. At the final part, the network of Lingya administrative district of Kaohsiung City in Taiwan was taken as an example to apply this method. We have found 17 fire rescue, 19 medical rescue, and 17 logistics supply dominant links.