| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 653, 2025
The 1st International Conference on Innovative Structure and Resilient City (ISRC 2025)
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 02003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Urban Risk Assessment and Climate Resilience | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202565302003 | |
| Published online | 20 October 2025 | |
Development and Validation of ROSA: A Tool for Post-Earthquake Rescue Route and Urban Risk Assessment
1 Associate Researcher, National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF APPLIED RESEARCH R.O.C.
2 Research Assistant, National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF APPLIED RESEARCH, R.O.C.
3 Former Research Assistant, National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF APPLIED RESEARCH R.O.C.
* Corresponding author: ctyang@niar.org.tw
The Rescue Road Planning and Seismic Blockage Risk Assessment Technology (ROSA), developed by the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE), is a software tool designed to support post-earthquake disaster response in urban areas. ROSA enhances the assessment of traffic disruption risks and rescue route feasibility, focusing on complex hazards such as casualties, building collapse, and network disruptions. It prioritizes high-risk blocks and areas near rescue routes, providing integrated evaluations of structural damage, casualties, and potential road blockages. We have applied ROSA in disaster preparedness and emergency drill planning for local governments, including New Taipei City, Taipei City, and Hualien County. Following the Hualien earthquake on April 3, 2024, we collected empirical data on building damage to validate ROSA’s predictive accuracy. Comparisons between observed damage and model outputs demonstrate its effectiveness in identifying high-risk zones and obstructed routes. These findings support further refinement of the tool and inform future research directions.
Key words: ROSA / Post-Earthquake Risk Assessment / Rescue Route Planning / Urban Disaster Management
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2025
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.