As the number of adopted alternative fuel vehicles increases, it is crucial for communities (especially those that are susceptible to hazards) make evacuation plans account such refueling needs. During emergencies require preemptive planning, travelers using vulnerable when routes do not provide access stations on their way shelters. In this paper, we formulate and solve a novel seamless route ...

The need to have evacuation plans in place for ready implementation for special needs populations became evident after catastrophic events such as Hurricane Katrina. For the purpose of this study, special needs populations will include, but are not limited to, people with physical disabilities, older adults, non-English-speaking populations, residents and employees without vehicles, and tourist...

Traffic simulation models are helpful or even indispensable while planning or managing an evacuation. A multitude of dynamic traffic models have been developed to this end to understand and predict evacuation conditions on a road network, and the effect of traffic regulations and control measures hereon. In many earlier studies, evacuation is recognized as a special case regarding different tra...

After the 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, nursing-home residents and staff were evacuated voluntarily from damaged areas to avoid radiation exposure. Unfortunately, the evacuation resulted in increased mortalities among nursing home residents. We assessed the risk trade-off between evacuation and radiation for 191 residents and 184 staff at three nursing homes by usi...

The U.S. military's current concept of operations for expeditionary medical care emphasizes quickly moving patients to a series of successively more sophisticated medical facilities that provide the patients with the care necessary to treat their injury or condition. Balancing the deployment of treatment and evacuation resources is therefore necessary to ensure that the right mix of resources i...

Recent natural or man-made disasters around the world have provided compelling evidence that transportation system plays a crucial role in the emergency evacuation and have stressed the need for effective evacuation traffic management to maximize the utilization of the transportation system and to minimize fatalities and losses. This paper presents a model reference adaptive control (MRAC) fram...

The understanding of evacuation processes is important for improving the effectiveness of evacuation plans in the event of volcanic disasters. In terms of social processes, the enactment of evacuations in volcanic crises depends on the variability of individual/household responses. This variability of population response is related to the uncertainty and unpredictability of the hazard character...

Researcher: Xiaoqing Deng Title: AN AIRCRAFT EVACUATION SIMULATION BASELINE USING DES FOR PASSENGER PATH PLANNING Institution: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Degree: Master of Science in Aeronautics Year: 2016 This paper introduced a Discrete Event Simulation (DES) model that simulates passengers’ evacuation paths and decision-making processes during aircraft certification. The model was ...

Approa h y Qingsong Lu, Yan Huang, Shashi Shekhar Department of Computer S ien e, University of Minnesota 200 Union St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 [lqingson; huangyan; shekhar℄ s.umn.edu February 10, 2003 Abstra t Eva uation planning is riti al for appli ations su h as disaster management and homeland defense preparation. EÆ ient tools are needed to produ e eva uation plans to eva uate population...