Transportation during Crisis Situations and Natural Disasters.
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Second International Conference on Cartography and GIS, Seminar with EU cooperation on early warning and disaster/crises management |
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| Field | Earth magnetism, geography |
| Keywords | Transportation; Cross-country movement; Natural Risks and Disasters; Terrain Analyses; GO; SLOW GO; NO GO Terrain |
| Description | The goal of this paper is to identify the critical spots on the roads, which are important for transportation control, traffic accident analyses and especially for the rescue operations management during the crisis situations and disasters such as floods, fires, storms, and so on. In paper are included: technical parameters of the critical spots on the roads, their attributes and specifications; critical technical parameters of the transportation vehicles; common criterions for the road critical spots determination, place (coordinates) determination and description of the critical spots. This paper is a particular result of the research intention - MSM0021622418 Dynamic Visualization in Crisis Management, managed by the Laboratory on Informatics and Cartography, Institute of Geography, Masaryk University in Brno |
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