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physics.soc-ph2025
Quantifying the Social Costs of Power Outages and Restoration Disparities Across Four U.S. Hurricanes
Xiangpeng Li, Junwei Ma, Bo Li +1
The multifaceted nature of disaster impact shows that densely populated areas contribute more to aggregate burden, while sparsely populated but heavily affected regions suffer disp…
physics.soc-ph2025
Evac-Cast: An Interpretable Machine-Learning Framework for Evacuation Forecasts Across Hurricanes and Wildfires
Bo Li, Chenyue Liu, Ali Mostafavi
Evacuation is critical for disaster safety, yet agencies lack timely, accurate, and transparent tools for evacuation prediction. This study introduces Evac-Cast, an interpretable m…
physics.soc-ph2024
Recent Decade's Power Outage Data Reveals the Increasing Vulnerability of U.S. Power Infrastructure
Bo Li, Junwei Ma, Femi Omitaomu +1
Despite significant anecdotal evidence regarding the vulnerability of the U.S. power infrastructure, there is a dearth of longitudinal and nation-level characterization of the spat…