Simulating the limits of our infrastructure
The analysis of measuring risks in Proximity by road network and Magnitude to reaching Medical Help for All is a scenario that seek for disparity between road grids and medical center point network. For instance, let say that there is a treacherous disaster that requires for everyone to seek medical attention at once. You can imagine the traffic congestion on the road network to be an instant path to increased risks and depreciated safety. Studies of natural disasters report that most deaths happen inside an automobile during safety. In particular, the Great Bola Cyclone caused more than 300,000 deaths, in which people died during transit to find shelter, safety, or medical attention.
When tracking the cause of failure or allocating a point of restoration, the investigation digs deeper than following the systematic hiearchy of individual systems. Infrastructure operates across borders and are interdependent, and not dependent on other systems' functionality. The infrastructure cannot be organized in a linear hiearchy, but instead a cyclical loop, in which the behaviors are understood as a chain of actions. Analysis through simulation of vunlerabilities helped explore the interdepencies of traffic.
In particular, road network infrastructure has been vulnerable target for disaster challenges. This analysis is conducted by drawing points of destination -- hospitals, clinics, care centers -- which then shape the topology of hidden metric space by intersecting circles that represent the range of proximity between destination and source. The metric space measures the range of risks to the region, while the roads provided a graphical distance between destinations. By drawing comparison between the metric and graphic space of vulnerabilities, the disjuncture between the traffic networks' proximity to destination and physical organization and road network on site can be seen as a cause for failure.
Through the understandings of risks involved in transit, the analysis creates a hypothetica scene to quantify who and what geographic regions are at risk when it comes to finiding medical safety. People who travel beyond the four-mile radius have increased risks of any road accidents during disaster settings.
