Aiding emergency response to multiple casualty terrorist bombings targeting public surface transportation vehicles

Marcus L. Da Silva; Mitsuji Matsumoto

doi:10.1109/ICNSC.2008.4525215

Aiding emergency response to multiple casualty terrorist bombings targeting public surface transportation vehicles

Marcus L. Da Silva, Mitsuji Matsumoto

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Abstract

The emergency response process to multiple casualty incidents can be significantly enhanced by employing early assessments on the extent of the damage and life threat. In this paper we present an early scene assessment method, which assumes blast overpressure information retrieved from pressure transducers, for enhancing the response to terrorist bombings which are performed inside public surface transportation vehicles. The method draws best and worst cases scenarios according to different lethality zones, which are computed upon the ESTC empirical indoor blast model. Additionally, we describe our experiments and analyze the corresponding results. Our main contribution relies on enhancing the existing emergency response process by providing early estimations on the number of immediate fatalities and critically injured survivors that responders and medical personnel may expect.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC
Pages	226-231
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2008.4525215
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC - Sanya Duration: 2008 Apr 6 → 2008 Apr 8

Other

Other	2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC
City	Sanya
Period	08/4/6 → 08/4/8

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Control and Systems Engineering

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Da Silva, ML & Matsumoto, M 2008, Aiding emergency response to multiple casualty terrorist bombings targeting public surface transportation vehicles. in Proceedings of 2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC., 4525215, pp. 226-231, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC, Sanya, 08/4/6. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2008.4525215

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