Title

Evacuation Route Planning Of Heterogeneous, Incompatible Flows In Emergency Situations

Keywords

Bi-directional flows; Contraflow; Emergency evacuation route planning; Emergency responders; Evacuees

Abstract

In an unexpected emergency situation, at least two simultaneous, heterogeneous, opposing flows occur. The first is the flow of evacuees from the impacted areas to destinations of safety. The second flow is the flow of emergency officials (first responders) to the impacted areas. These two flows traverse a bi-directional, capacitated transportation network where the roadway segments, merge and cross points are fixed. In this research, we consider a special case of the emergency evacuation route planning problem where we examine a two flows network and find its optimal contraflow reconfiguration.

Publication Date

12-1-2007

Publication Title

IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2007 - Industrial Engineering's Critical Role in a Flat World - Conference Proceedings

Number of Pages

263-268

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

44949107244 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/44949107244

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