Perceptions towards the use of intelligent transport system technologies by earthquake victims

Abstract

Islamabad (Pakistan) is a well-developed community that is experienced in natural disasters, particularly earthquakes. The problem faced by the people of Islamabad (Pakistan) is the lack of timely information immediately prior to, during and following earthquakes resulted in many causalities and other major losses in the past. Due to a lack of relevant literature, the perceptions of earthquake-affected people regarding the use of ITS technologies (that can facilitate broken communication and missing information links between different earthquake-affected people and earthquake management authorities) are unknown. In total 102 randomly selected households of Islamabad (Pakistan) were recruited to complete a questionnaire, which had been carefully designed and piloted. A Multinomial Logistic Regression approach was employed to analyse the data. In total 15 different statistically significant models were developed. The results will help in designing ITS oriented policies and management plans for the rescue, search, evacuation operations, and emergency logistics for the earthquake affected people.