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Energy Inequality in Climate Hazards: Empirical Evidence of Social and Spatial Disparities in Managed and Hazard-Induced Power Outages
Natalie Coleman, Amir Esmalian, Cheng-Chun Lee +3
The energy sector in the United States is ever more vulnerable to extreme climatic hazards, leading to multiple hazard-induced and managed power outages. Utility companies reported…
Quantitative Measures for Integrating Resilience into Transportation Planning Practice: Study in Texas
Cheng-Chun Lee, Akhil Rajput, Chia-Wei Hsu +10
The objective of this study is to propose a system-level framework with quantitative measures to assess the resilience of road networks. The framework proposed in this paper can he…
Characterizing Equitable Access to Grocery Stores During Disasters Using Location-based Data
Amir Esmalian, Natalie Coleman, Faxi Yuan +2
Natural hazards cause disruptions in access to critical facilities, such as grocery stores, impeding residents ability to prepare for and cope with hardships during the disaster an…
Smart Flood Resilience: Harnessing Community-Scale Big Data for Predictive Flood Risk Monitoring, Rapid Impact Assessment, and Situational Awareness
Faxi Yuan, Chao Fan, Hamed Farahmand +7
Smart resilience is the beneficial result of the collision course of the fields of data science and urban resilience to flooding. The objective of this study is to propose and demo…
Tracing app technology: An ethical review in the COVID-19 era and directions for post-COVID-19
Saleh Afroogh, Amir Esmalian, Ali Mostafavi +4
We conducted a systematic literature review on the ethical considerations of the use of contact tracing app technology, which was extensively implemented during the COVID-19 pandem…
Multi-agent Modeling of Hazard-Household-Infrastructure Nexus for Equitable Resilience Assessment
Amir Esmalian, Wanqiu Wang, Ali Mostafavi
To enable integrating social equity considerations in infrastructure resilience assessments, this study created a new computational multi-agent simulation model which enables integ…
Unveiling Spatial Patterns of Disaster Impacts and Recovery Using Credit Card Transaction Variances
Faxi Yuan, Amir Esmalian, Bora Oztekin +1
The objective of this study is to examine spatial patterns of impacts and recovery of communities based on variances in credit card transactions. Such variances could capture the c…
Quantifying Community Resilience Based on Fluctuations in Visits to Point-of-Interest from Digital Trace Data
Cristian Podesta, Natalie Coleman, Amir Esmalian +2
This study aims to quantify community resilience based on fluctuations in the visits to various Point-of-Interest (POIs) locations. Visit to POIs is an essential indicator of human…