Assessment of the hurricane-induced power outages from a demographic, socioeconomic, and transportation perspective
Assessment of the hurricane-induced power outages from a demographic, socioeconomic, and transportation perspective
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从人口、社会经济和交通角度评估飓风引起的停电
DOI:
10.1007/s11069-018-3260-9
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发表时间:
2018
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
and Arghandeh, R.
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作者:
Ulak, Mehmet B.;Kocatepe, A.;Konila Sriram, Lalitha M.;Ozguven, Eren E.;and Arghandeh, R.
Natural disasters have devastating effects on the infrastructure and disrupt every aspect of daily life in the regions they hit. To alleviate problems caused by these disasters, first an impact assessment is needed. As such, this paper focuses on a two-step methodology to identify the impact of Hurricane Hermine on the City of Tallahassee, the capital of Florida. The regional and socioeconomic variations in the Hermine’s impact were studied via spatially and statistically analyzing power outages. First step includes a spatial analysis to illustrate the magnitude of customers affected by power outages together with a clustering analysis. This step aims to determine whether the customers affected from outages are clustered or not. Second step involves a Bayesian spatial autoregressive model in order to identify the effects of several demographic-, socioeconomic-, and transportation-related variables on the magnitude of customers affected by power outages. Results showed that customers affected by outages are spatially clustered at particular regions rather than being dispersed. This indicates the need to pinpoint such vulnerable locations and develop strategies to reduce hurricane-induced disruptions. Furthermore, the increase in the magnitude of affected customers was found to be associated with several variables such as the power network and total generated trips as well as the demographic factors. The information gained from the findings of this study can assist emergency officials in identifying critical and/or less resilient regions, and determining those demographic and socioeconomic groups which were relatively more affected by the consequences of hurricanes than others.
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
S. Quiring;Laiyin Zhu;S. Guikema
通讯作者:
S. Guikema