Saving lives through smarter hurricane evacuations
Friday, August 29, 2008 - 13:07
in Mathematics & Economics
Hundreds of lives and millions of dollars could potentially be saved if emergency managers could make better critical decisions when faced with an approaching hurricane. Now, an MIT student has developed a computer model that could help do just that.
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