Keywords
Traffic Simulation, Vissim, Incidents Evacuation, Emergency operation.
Abstract
The evacuation planning has become an important issue addressed by many research studies and publications aiming to improve the security of the daily life for our public inside the United States of America. The main objective of this research was to address the growing need for evacuation planning using traffic simulation. With increased interests and awareness in emergency evacuation and first responder access to emergencies in public locations (airports, transit stations, ports or stadiums), the traffic simulation can be helpful in orchestrating the traffic flow during emergencies. Related to this issue, Federal Transit Administration has issued a large number of publications and guidelines concerning emergency preparedness and incident management. These guidelines are used to develop a simulation-based activity to evaluate the current plan and alternative plans for the deployment of transit during an emergency situation. A major task for this project is to study the effect of evacuation on the surrounding traffic network and help the local transit company (LYNX) to evaluate their evacuation plan and consider different possibilities without the risk and cost of actual evacuation drills. A set of different scenarios and alternatives for each scenario were simulated and studied to reach the best possible evacuation strategy. The main findings were evacuation as pedestrians have less impact on traffic network and rerouting decreases the congestion resulting from the evacuation process.
Notes
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Graduation Date
2006
Semester
Summer
Advisor
Radwan, Essam A.
Degree
Master of Science (M.S.)
College
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Degree Program
Civil Engineering
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0001188
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0001188
Language
English
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
STARS Citation
Elmitiny, Noor, "Simulation And Continuance Of Operation For The Use Of Transit (lynx) To Be Used In Emergency Evacuation Incidents" (2006). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 901.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/901