Measuring emergency medical service (EMS) accessibility with the effect of city dynamics in a 100-year pluvial flood scenario

Li, Mengya; Kwan, Mei‐Po; Chen, Jie; Wang, Jun; Yin, Jie; Yu, Dapeng

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2021.103314

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“…Under unexpected events or emergencies, urban emergency services such as Fire and Rescue Services (FRS) and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are required to reach the location in the shortest possible time to rescue people and property (Yu et al, 2020). Emergency accessibility is an important indicator of a city's ability to prevent and mitigate disasters and is key to improving the disaster response capacity of the tourism industry (Li et al, 2021;Morakabati et al, 2017).…”

Section: Spatial Accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the achievement of these response goals is often influenced by a variety of factors. Traffic congestion, for example, where the movement of millions of people within cities leads to daily changes in traffic and demand, will limit the efficiency of urban emergency response (Li et al, 2021). And natural disasters, such as floods and earthquakes will lead to disruptions in road accessibility and loss of emergency response capacity for emergency agencies, which in turn will increase response times and even create emergency blind spots (Alabbad et al, 2021;M.…”

Section: Spatial Accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, there are some shortcomings in these studies. Firstly, most previous studies have used vector data-based network analysis for road network modelling, but this approach is more demanding and varies significantly from the actual road network data (Li et al, 2021;Zheng et al, 2020). In addition, most previous studies have focused on urban or vulnerable groups, and few studies have focused on tourism enterprises (Shi et al, 2020).…”

Section: Spatial Accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With the rapid development and widespread use of spatial awareness and mobile positioning technologies, locationbased big data is closely linked to the development of society and penetrates into the daily lives of people (Li et al, 2021;Zheng et al, 2020). The wave of big data has provided new insights into the value of data and significantly changed the way they are used (Mudigonda et al, 2019;Qiang & Xu, 2020;Zheng et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The emergence of big data provides an opportunity to address the difficulty of dynamically measuring the impact of traffic conditions on emergency accessibility. Some scholars have already applied big traffic data to accessibility measurement, but related studies are not common in tourism research (Li et al, 2021;Qiang & Xu, 2020). This research combines real-time traffic big data from Web GIS with flood simulations to provide new insights into disaster emergency planning for the tourism industry.…”

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The Emergency Accessibility Analysis based on Traffic Big Data and Flood Scenario Simulation in the context of Shanghai Hotel industry

Qian

Lin

Shi

et al. 2021

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Abstract. Underlying the impact of global warming and rapid growth of the tourism industry, the increasing frequency of flood post threats to the sustainable development of the coastal cities in China. The article proposes a methodological approach to evaluate the emergence response capability. This approach combines the flood simulation scenario method, traffic big data with the path navigation interface of the web. This article provides an empirical study to evaluate the emergency response from Fire & Rescue Service (FRS) to the tourist hotel in Shanghai from spatial accessibility perspective. The findings show that (1). The emergency response from FRS has significant relationships with the situation of transportation, the location of hotels, the intensity of flood inundation and the number, location of the urban FRS. (2). The emergency accessibility of a city caused by floods depends on the prevailing traffic conditions. The more severe traffic congestion has a significant impact on the spatial accessibility. (3) Flooding and real-time traffic conditions can change the fastest path from FRS to tourist hotels, resulting in delays in emergency response times, and the selection of the most appropriate travel routes is critical to improving the emergency response capability of cities. The results proved the validity of this proposed approach. Consequently, the approach contributes to the enhancement of the level of emergence response ability of urban tourism when they encounter disasters.

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Evaluating the Improvement of Healthcare Accessibility for Urban Residents via the Construction of New Hospitals: A Case Study of Xi’an, China

Yang,

Luo,

Liu

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Deficiency of Healthcare Accessibility of Elderly People Exposed to Future Extreme Coastal Floods: A Case Study of Shanghai, China

Shan,

Scussolini,

Wang

et al. 2023

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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Socioeconomic development, subsidence, and climate change have led to high flood risks in coastal cities, making the vulnerable, especially elderly people, more prone to floods. However, we mostly do not know how the accessibility of life-saving public resources for the elderly population will change under future scenarios. Using Shanghai as a case, this study introduced a new analytical framework to fill this gap. We integrated for the first time models of coastal flooding, local population growth, and medical resource supply-demand estimation. The results show that under an extreme scenario of coastal flooding in the year 2050, in the absence of adaptation, half of the elderly population may be exposed to floods, the supply of medical resources will be seriously insufficient compared to the demand, and the accessibility of emergency medical services will be impaired by flooding. Our methodology can be applied to gain insights for other vulnerable coastal cities, to assist robust decision making about emergency responses to flood risks for elderly populations in an uncertain future.

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Measuring emergency medical service (EMS) accessibility with the effect of city dynamics in a 100-year pluvial flood scenario

Cited by 30 publications

References 42 publications

The Emergency Accessibility Analysis based on Traffic Big Data and Flood Scenario Simulation in the context of Shanghai Hotel industry

The Emergency Accessibility Analysis based on Traffic Big Data and Flood Scenario Simulation in the context of Shanghai Hotel industry

Evaluating the Improvement of Healthcare Accessibility for Urban Residents via the Construction of New Hospitals: A Case Study of Xi’an, China

Deficiency of Healthcare Accessibility of Elderly People Exposed to Future Extreme Coastal Floods: A Case Study of Shanghai, China

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