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Authors:
Vivian Sultan
Au Vo
Brian Hilton
Keywords: Emergency Disaster Response; GIS; Power outage
Abstract:
There are many reasons behind power failure that we are facing today. When examining some of these reasons, the research team found that an electric substation failure could cause massive power outages. In this research-in-progress paper, we investigate the important relationship between electric substations and the important infrastructure they support. Specifically, we try to answer the research question: “Which important facilities would be affected by the power outage from an electric substation level?” To answer the question, we build a proof of concept Decision Support Tool using Geographic Information Systems to inform emergency responders which important facilities need to be attend to first. We select nursing homes and emergency facilities in Southern California, USA as the facilities of interest for the proof of concept.
Pages: 43 to 46
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018
Publication date: May 20, 2018
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-412X
ISBN: 978-1-61208-635-4
Location: Nice, France
Dates: from May 20, 2018 to May 24, 2018