On Evaluation System of Highway Emergency Rescue Capabilities.doc

On Evaluation System of Highway Emergency Rescue Capabilities Lou tianfeng , College of Public Administration ,HUST ,Wuhan, China ,loutf@ Cheng qi , Management School, WHUT Wuhan, China, lindachq@189.cn. Abstract—A scientific evaluation on highway emergency rescue capability (HERC in short) is of great theoretical and practical significance on improving the emergency management capability of the highway operators and governors. Firstly, some basic researches about HERC have been made. The concept and the connotation of HERC have been defined, and the constitution of HERC has been demonstrated from factor dimension, disaster dimension, process dimension and management dimension. So the structure model of management dimension has been established. Taking construction principles into account, a multilevel index system of HERCS has been established, mainly focusing on evaluating the monitoring and early warning capabilities, infrastructure support capabilities, response capabilities, disposition capabilities, recover capacities and the sub-indexes. Above all, this paper uses fuzzy comprehensive evaluation (FCE) method based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to evaluate the highway emergency rescue capabilities. The method, steps and capability grade were discussed. Finally, a case was used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the index system and evaluating method. Keywords-Evaluation System; Index; Highway; Emergency ;Rescue Capability I. INTRODUCTION Highway is the most important part of country road transportation system in China, with the total mileage over 75000 kilometers ranking the place in the world. However, China haven’t given enough attention to emergency rescue in the process of highway construction and management, especially in emergencies (natural disasters, severe traffic accidents, group events, dangerous goods vehicle accidents). The emergency response process loosely and the methods of response is relative single, which becomes the bottleneck to asc