Empirical Study on Emergency Inter-Organizational Information Communication Barriers for Expressway Emergency

Abstract:

Based on a typical Expressway emergency case the 12.5 black powder explosion on Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, this article built an expressway emergency inter-organizational communication network and then analyzed the communication barriers with Network Analysis Approach. The study finds that in hierarchical structures level, Expressway enterprise lack of communication with the local government; the subgroups that have business contact with Expressway enterprise in normal condition are difficult to share information in emergency with the subgroups that has no business relationship with expressway enterprise; the subgroups that have no business relationship with Expressway enterprise in normal condition are of great disparity in communication intensity internally and it is easy to cause over load for the core organization in communication; in the contrast, the subgroup that has business contact with expressway enterprise normally, the internal communication structure is more reasonable.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 411-414)
• Pages: 2542-2551
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.411-414.2542
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Li Ping Lei
• Keywords: Communication Network, Emergency Information, Expressway Emergency

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