Technological advances in evacuation planning and emergency management : current state of the art.

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• Creators:
  Jafari, Mohsen ; Bakhadyrov, Izzat ; Maher, Ali
• Corporate Creators:
  Rutgers University. Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Research and Special Programs Administration ; United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Evacuation
  • Disasters and emergency operations
  • Emergencies
  • Emergency transportation Evacuation of civilians--New Jersey
  • Transportation--New Jersey--Planning
  • Emergency transportation--New Jersey
• Publication/ Report Number:
  EVAC-RU4474
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  New Jersey
• Edition:
  Final report; Jan. 2003-June 2003.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Rutgers University. Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation
• Abstract:
  Evacuation of people in the event of hazard is one of basic problems of human society. From early ; ages people planned their habitat with possibility of hazards in mind. For instance, one of The Seven ; Wonders of the World, the Temple of Artemis, was built on a swamp, to protect it and its personnel ; from earthquakes often in that area. With the course of history, complexity of human built buildings ; and infrastructures grew, as well as a population density. This increased the dangers imposed by any ; hazard, occurring in densely populated areas, and imposed higher requirements on evacuation and ; emergency management. Nowadays, evacuation planning and emergency management became a ; sophisticated field of civil engineering sciences, aimed to save human lives by safe facility design and ; optimization of rescue operations. To do so, it uses latest achievements in number of various both ; fundamental and applied disciplines, such as Simulation, Process Control, Applied Mathematics, ; Psychology, Architecture, Physics and many others. In this work we attempt to present a survey of ; various approaches and technologies, being developed and being used for Evacuation Planning and ; Emergency Management.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/18368/dot_18368_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 604.67 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:82b759576d2b6b81d7b92ed492540bdae4897617c1224b873e21a9dc211da4e73c525ee2a37385415a424ad4e3f7e96a70d37da19dc48a1d87b19510e15b4b20