This study proposes an innovative integrated method for evaluating the evacuation and rescue capabilities of open spaces through a case study in Wuhan, China. A dual-scenario network analysis model was set up to calculate travel time among communities, open spaces, and rescue facilities during peak and non-peak hours. The distribution of traffic flow was derived on the basis of a gravity model ...

Three Forward Aeromedical Evacuation platforms operate in Southern Afghanistan: UK Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT), US Air Force Expeditionary Rescue Squadron (PEDRO), and US Army Medical Evacuation Squadrons (DUSTOFF), each with a different clinical capability. Recent evidence suggests that retrieval by a platform with a greater clinical capability (MERT) is associated with improved mor...

Traffic evacuation is one of the most challenging problems in a mega city due to crowded road conditions. This study focuses on developing a traffic evacuation model with decision-making capability. The model basically consists of two modules. The first one is a decision-making support module which runs very fast and provides short-forecast. The second one is a simulation module, which is used ...

The Future Force (FF) war-fighting concept includes maintenance of medical functionality as close to the action as possible for 72 hrs without re-supply and possibly without air evacuation assets. The most challenging casualty for the Forward Surgical Team (FST) is the critically injured soldier requiring immediate life-saving surgery and transport while on life support equipment. The FF battle...

As an indispensable spatial direction information indicator for emergency evacuation, the relationship between safety evacuation signs and evacuees will affect response time of efficiency. This paper takes 2 kinds common signs, hangtag-type embedded, as research object designs space transmission efficiency capability simulation experiment fire drill, are studied. The results show that angle sig...

Title of Thesis: LARGE-SCALE EVACUATION ROUTING AND SCHEDULING OPTIMIZATION WITH UNINTERRUPTED TRAFFIC FLOW Xuechi Zhang, Master of Science, 2014 Directed By: Dr. Ali Haghani Department of Civil Engineering In many emergency management operations, an efficient evacuation strategy is of great importance because if it is successful, it has the ability to significantly reduce the loss of property ...

Many coastal communities throughout the world are threatened by local (or near-field) tsunamis that could inundate low-lying areas in a matter of minutes after generation. Although the hazard and sustainability literature often frames vulnerability conceptually as a multidimensional issue involving exposure, sensitivity, and resilience to a hazard, assessments often focus on one element or do n...

Nuclear emergency evacuation is important to prevent radioactive harms by hazardous materials and to limit the accidents' consequences; however, uncertainties are involved in the components and processes of such a management system. In the study, an interval-parameter joint-probabilistic integer programming (IJIP) method is developed for emergency evacuation management under uncertainties. Opti...

We describe a reactive replanning technique developed to enable transportation planning in a highly dynamic, complex and critical domain: the military aeromedical evacuation of patients to medical treatment facilities. In early 1993, the Department of Defense tasked the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) to consolidate the command and control of medical regulation (assigning patients to m...