Study in performance analysis of China Urban Emergency Response System based on Petri net

Maohua Zhong; Congling Shi; Tairan Fu; Li He; Jiehong Shi

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2010.02.017

Study in performance analysis of China Urban Emergency Response System based on Petri net

Saf Sci. 2010 Jul;48(6):755-762. doi: 10.1016/j.ssci.2010.02.017. Epub 2010 Mar 26.

Authors

Maohua Zhong¹, Congling Shi¹, Tairan Fu², Li He¹, Jiehong Shi¹

Affiliations

¹ China Academy of Safety Science and Technology, State Administration of Work Safety, 17 Huixin Xijie, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100029, PR China.
² Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China.

Abstract

Urban Emergency Response System (UERS) is a modernization symbol of a city. With acceleration of urbanization process and constant expansion of city size in China, China cities must respond to various emergencies timely and effectively to satisfy urban residents' needs for public security. In recent years, many China cities made trials and efforts in setting up and improving the UERS. At the same time, the China government began to build Emergency Response Systems (ERS) in some cities to deal with various possible emergencies. In this paper, using Petri net (PN), we study the performance of China typical UERS and establish its PN model for performance analysis. Based on the Markov chain (MC) of the model, the performance of China typical UERS is analyzed. Results from our simulation are in conformity with practical operation of China current UERS.

Keywords: Emergency response; Performance evaluation; Petri net; Urban accidents.