University campuses can be at risk during natural and man-made disasters because of the concentration of population and buildings. During emergency situations, traffic congestion may occur because of high traffic volumes and vehicle-pedestrian conflicts. Evacuation modeling and planning can aid in guiding the vehicles and pedestrians to safety, in the shortest time possible. To that end, a case study was conducted on an evacuation scenario at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, an isolated campus in the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The researchers used the model to predict total clearance time, identify problematic locations, and evaluate low-cost operational improvements. Although the evacuation was expected to produce large volumes of pedestrians crossing a key evacuation link, it was found that vehicle-pedestrian conflicts at these locations did not have a significant effect on the overall evacuation period because the timing of these flows was offset.


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    Title :

    Lessons Learned from Modeling the Evacuation of a Suburban University Campus


    Contributors:
    Fries, Ryan N. (author) / Ghale, Karna (author) / Dirks, Bryan (author) / Qi, Yan (author)

    Conference:

    International Conference on Transportation and Development 2018 ; 2018 ; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania



    Publication date :

    2018-07-12




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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