{"id":483228,"date":"2022-08-11T00:11:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/prediction-of-human-movement-during-disasters-could-allow-for-more-effective-emergency-response\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T00:11:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:11:03","slug":"prediction-of-human-movement-during-disasters-could-allow-for-more-effective-emergency-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/prediction-of-human-movement-during-disasters-could-allow-for-more-effective-emergency-response\/","title":{"rendered":"#Prediction of human movement during disasters could allow for more effective emergency response"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a5026b3d1d8b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a5026b3d1d8b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/prediction-of-human-movement-during-disasters-could-allow-for-more-effective-emergency-response\/#%E2%80%9CPrediction_of_human_movement_during_disasters_could_allow_for_more_effective_emergency_response%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Prediction of human movement during disasters could allow for more effective emergency response&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CPrediction_of_human_movement_during_disasters_could_allow_for_more_effective_emergency_response%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Prediction of human movement during disasters could allow for more effective emergency response&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/flood-1.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/flood-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Credit: Unsplash\/CC0 Public Domain\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/flood-1.jpg\" alt=\"flood\" title=\"Credit: Unsplash\/CC0 Public Domain\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Credit: Unsplash\/CC0 Public Domain<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic, bigger and more frequent wildfires, devastating floods, and powerful storms have become unfortunate facts of life. With each disaster, people depend on the emergency response of governments, nonprofit organizations, and the private sector for aid when their lives are upended. However, a complicating factor in delivering that aid is that people tend to disperse with such disasters.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                Recently, a team led by Jianxi Gao, assistant professor of computer <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Qi &#8220;Ryan&#8221; Wang, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, formulated a method to predict human movement during large-scale extreme events with the goal of enabling more effective emergency responses. The model also revealed great disparity in movement among different economic groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite many possible variables, we found that changes in human mobility behavior during various extreme events exhibit a consistent hyperbolic decline,&#8221; said Gao. &#8220;We call it &#8216;spatiotemporal decay.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Typically, people&#8217;s movements follow predictable patterns. When an extreme event disrupts the pattern, scientists refer to it as a &#8220;mobility perturbation.&#8221; For example, people may stop commuting to work, or they may change their route, or even evacuate to a shelter. Not only do these mobility perturbations cause challenges when delivering aid, but they also lead to financial, medical, and quality of life repercussions. The nature, extent, and duration of mobility perturbations vary widely.<\/p>\n<p>Gao&#8217;s team tracked the anonymous movements of 90 million people in the United States over the course of six large-scale disasters including wildfires, tropical storms, winter freezes, and pandemics in order to develop a unified model.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"mb-4\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n    <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Prediction of human movement during disasters to allow for more effective emergency response\"\/><br \/>\n    <meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\/?v=RQRl0uhNsh4\"\/><br \/>\n    <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Prediction of human movement during disasters to allow for more effective emergency response\"\/><br \/>\n    <meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-08-10T16:35:08-04:00\"\/><br \/>\n        <meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RQRl0uhNsh4\"\/><br \/>\n    <meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/RQRl0uhNsh4\/maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>             <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Prediction of Human Movement During Disasters to Allow for More Effective Emergency Response\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RQRl0uhNsh4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Our model reveals the underlying uniformity across variables by incorporating heterogeneity across space and over time,&#8221; said Gao. &#8220;We found strong regularities in how much mobility behavior changes following extreme events and in how fast mobility behavior returns to normal, allowing us to predict complex human behaviors during large-scale crises.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gao&#8217;s team found that people living close to the nucleus of the crisis\u2014ground zero, or where a storm hits\u2014limit their mobility significantly and quickly. Those living further away do not alter their movement patterns as drastically. This is what is referred to as &#8220;spatial decay.&#8221; Over time, mobility patterns either return to normal, inch towards normal, or become even more perturbed. The team accounted for these variables by considering &#8220;temporal decay,&#8221; as well.<br \/>\n                                            <!-- Google middle Adsense block --><\/p>\n<p>When the team <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lied the model to the COVID-19 pandemic, it revealed great differences in movement among economic groups, which may help to explain the different infection rates. People from wealthy areas were more able to im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely reduce their mobility and maintain that change longer. People living in lower income areas exhibited a faster and greater hyperbolic decay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In other words, wealthier people were able to socially distance,&#8221; Gao said. &#8220;Lower income people were forced to return to work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If events of recent years have taught us anything, it is that we must do our best to prepare for crises,&#8221; said Curt Breneman, Dean of the Rensselaer School of Science. &#8220;This work by Dr. Gao and his team can inform enhanced and proactive emergency response planning to mitigate future extreme events. It also shines a light on persistent social inequities that we must find new ways to address.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The research is published in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>.\n                                                                                                                        <\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__explore my-4 d-print-none\">\n<p>                                            <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-medium text-info mt-2 d-inline-block\" href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2022-06-analyses-people-mobility-sars-cov-reveals.html\">Analyses of the relation between people&#8217;s mobility and SARS-CoV-2 spread reveals three groups of countries<\/a>\n                                        <\/div>\n<hr class=\"mb-4\"\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__more p-4\">\n                                                                                                <strong>More information:<\/strong><br \/>\n                                                Weiyu Li et al, A spatiotemporal decay model of human mobility when facing large-scale crises, <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i> (2022).  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-doi=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2203042119\">DOI: 10.1073\/pnas.2203042119<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"d-inline-block text-medium my-4\">\n                                                Provided by<br \/>\n                                                                                                    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<br \/>\n                                                                                                        <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon_open\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rpi.edu\/\"><br \/>\n                                                        <svg>\n                                                            <use href=\"https:\/\/techx.b-cdn.net\/tmpl\/v2\/img\/svg\/sprite.svg#icon_open\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\"\/>\n                                                        <\/svg><br \/>\n                                                    <\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>                                        <!-- print only --><\/p>\n<div class=\"d-none d-print-block\">\n<p>                                                 <strong>Citation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n                                                 Prediction of human movement during disasters could allow for more effective emergency response (2022, August 10)<br \/>\n                                                 retrieved 10 August 2022<br \/>\n                                                 from https:\/\/techxplore.com\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>\/2022-08-human-movement-disasters-effective-emergency.html<\/p>\n<p>                                            This document is subject to copyright. 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