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...

Evacuation drills are conducted periodically with the intent of practicing smooth evacuations from buildings, and for practicing rescue operations at emergency sites. An agentbased evacuation simulation with information diffusion provides a platform for simulating human evacuation behavior during emergencies that can be affected by various social and human factors. TENDENKO aims to conduct evac...

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...

In this paper, we present a reliability based evacuation route planning model that seeks to find the relationship between the clearance time, number of evacuation paths and congestion probability during evacuation. Most of the existing models for network evacuation assume deterministic capacity estimates for road links without taking into account the uncertainty in capacities induced by myriad ...

With rising instances of extreme events and urban settlements, this paper outlines a pedestrian evacuation modeling framework using volunteered geographical information from OpenStreetMap and simplified queuing-network model to estimate evacuation time, detect bottlenecks and test different evacuation strategies. An example case of a total city wide evacuation is presented for a selection of UK...

Title of Thesis: TRAFFIC SIGNAL TIMING FOR URBAN EVACUATION Ming Chen, Master of Science, 2005 Directed By: Dr. Elise Miller-Hooks Department of Civil Engineering Significant effort has been expended to reduce the evacuation time in a geographic evacuation. The majority of these efforts have focused on freeways and it appears that there has been no systematic consideration of signal timing in e...

INTRODUCTION Typhoon Haiyan caused thousands of deaths and catastrophic destruction, leaving many homeless in Region 8 of the Philippines. A team from the Philippine Field Epidemiology Training Program conducted a rapid health assessment survey of evacuation centres severely affected by Haiyan. METHODS A descriptive study was conducted whereby a convenience sample of evacuation centres were a...