Abstract

Safe Taiwan Decision Support System for Emergency Response
Track: Disaster and Emergency Management
Authors: Wen Ray Su, Hsueh-Cheng Chou, Shang-Yu Wu, Mei-Chun Kao

Taiwan experiences a wide range of natural disasters, such as typhoons, floods, landslides, debris flows, and earthquakes, results in the loss of many lives and properties.
To provide integrated and comprehensive-solutions from all government resources, the National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR) assigned a disaster intelligence group providing various types of typhoon disaster assistance, including a Central Emergency Operation Center Decision Support System (CEOC-DSS). This system integrates other government agencies' typhoon information, such as disaster news and predictions, emergency response, and rescue organizations.
Additionally, the added value of information applications enabled situational analysis and process handling during natural disasters. This study uses responses to typhoons as examples, and describes how the service platform of disaster prevention and rescue is used to integrate various data in the response processes and employs related systems to provide users real-time information as a reference for decision-making.