Assessment of emergency response policy based on Markov process Online publication date: Sat, 19-Jul-2014
by Yafei Zhou; Mao Liu
International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems (IJGCRSIS), Vol. 3, No. 2, 2013
Abstract: Major accidents not only endanger the health and safety of the population, but also bring bad influence to the environment around. In order to mitigate the adverse effects, emergency response policy (ERP) and corresponding protection action should be established. To maximise its effectiveness, ERP should be evaluated and optimised, while the most important criteria is minimising the health consequence of the accident. A discrete state stochastic Markov process was used to simulate the movement of the evacuees in this paper. Solution of the Markov process provided the expected distribution of the evacuees in the area as a function of time. Then, according to the way how extreme phenomena impact individual and the dose-response relationship, the people's health effects were calculated, so that the accident's health consequence was determined. Finally, different emergency response policies were evaluated with corresponding health consequence, so that the emergency policy can be optimised.
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