In the conventional evacuation planning process, evacuees are assigned to fixed destinations mainly on the basis of geographical proximity. However, the use of such prespecified destinations (an origin–destination table) almost always results in less-than-optimal evacuation efficiency because of uncertain road conditions, including traffic congestion, road blockage, and other hazards associated with the emergency. By relaxing the constraint of assigning evacuees to prespecified destinations, a one-destination evacuation (ODE) concept has the potential to improve evacuation efficiency greatly. To this end, a framework for the simultaneous optimization of evacuation traffic distribution and assignment is proposed. The ODE concept can be used to obtain an optimal destination and route assignment by solving a one-destination (1 D) traffic assignment problem on a modified network representation. When tested for a countywide special event–based evacuation case study, the proposed 1 D model presents substantial improvement over the conventional multiple-destination ( nD) model and can potentially reduce overall evacuation time by more than 60%. More important, this framework can be easily implemented and its efficiency enhanced simply by instructing evacuees to head for destinations resulting from the 1 D simulations run beforehand.


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    Titel :

    Proposed Framework for Simultaneous Optimization of Evacuation Traffic Destination and Route Assignment


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


    Beteiligte:
    Yuan, Fang (Autor:in) / Han, Lee D. (Autor:in) / Chin, Shih-Miao (Autor:in) / Hwang, Holing (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.01.2006




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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