June 3, 2010

Transportation emergencies and GIS

I know in India, that the Andhra Pradesh Government is using the Geographical Information System (GIS) for disaster management. I read a paper on "Assessment on the Consequences of LPG Release Accident in the Road Transportation via GIS Approaches". The authors have suggested integrating the results from consequence analysis to GIS tools, to get an accurate picture for disaster management. The advantage of this method is that the point of accident can be moved to any location using the GIS and a new result will be displayed for the LPG accident at the new location.
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