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MoveSafe: a framework for transportation mode-based targeted alerting in disaster response

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Sebastian Müller,

Agnès VoisardAuthors Info & Claims

GEOCROWD '13: Proceedings of the Second ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information

Pages 15 - 22

https://doi.org/10.1145/2534732.2534735

Published: 05 November 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Disasters, whether natural or man-made, can occur in an unexpected and unanticipated manner causing damage and disruptions. In the event of sudden onset of a hazard, private and public transport users and pedestrians need to be informed and guided to safety. Targeted alerting in early warning systems involves the communication of personalized information to a variety of communities based on their different needs and situations to improve alert usability and compliance. In this paper, we present MoveSafe, a generic and extensible framework for transportation mode-based dynamic partitioning of a population for targeted alerting and for better transport management in hazard occurrence scenarios. We infer the transportation mode of the users dynamically using their location traces through continuous feature extraction and maintenance. In combination with the hazard location, we use the transportation mode information to find clusters of people at potentially different levels of risk and with different information needs. The framework also supports a variety of classification features, classifiers, clustering dimensions, and clustering algorithms. We evaluate its performance in different settings and present the results.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19743-2_37

Index Terms

MoveSafe: a framework for transportation mode-based targeted alerting in disaster response
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Machine learning
    1. Learning paradigms
      1. Supervised learning
        Supervised learning by classification
    2. Machine learning approaches
      1. Classification and regression trees
2. Information systems

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GEOCROWD '13: Proceedings of the Second ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information

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ISBN:9781450325288

DOI:10.1145/2534732

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Kaur MKaur PSood S(2022)Analytical mapping on trends of information technology in hydrometeorological disasters researchGeocarto International10.1080/10106049.2022.208700637:26(14171-14197)Online publication date: 16-Jun-2022
https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2022.2087006
Kaur MKaur PSood S(2022)ICT in disaster management context: a descriptive and critical reviewEnvironmental Science and Pollution Research10.1007/s11356-022-21475-529:57(86796-86814)Online publication date: 7-Jul-2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-21475-5
Cuong TMehta PVoisard A(2015)DOOR: A Data Model for Crowdsourcing with Application to Emergency ResponseInternet of Things. IoT Infrastructures10.1007/978-3-319-19743-2_37(265-270)Online publication date: 26-Jun-2015
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19743-2_37

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