With the recent wildfires that have ravaged Los Angeles, natural disaster recovery is on people’s minds. With so many types of aid being required to come into such densely urban neighborhoods, efficiencies and logistics play a key role in the successful recovery of life, assessment of damage. Keeping roads open and transportation systems up and running can make or break recovery efforts.
Researchers at UTSA are researching ways to apply AI to transportation issues that follow earthquakes that have promise for application to other kinds of natural disasters and other kinds of contexts.
“Making restoration decisions for regional transportation networks in a post-earthquake environment is highly complicated due to many uncertainties and resource constraints throughout the entire restoration time horizon,” says Ao Du, assistant professor in civil engineering and construction management.
And while it may take a while for communities to rebuild following something like an earthquake, Du and Jiannan Cai are hoping their work in AI can help alleviate that.
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