Multimodal Solutions for Large Scale Evacuations

Details

• Alternative Title:
  Final report to the Center for Multimodal Solutions for Congestion Mitigation (CMS)
• Creators:
  Pardalos, Panos M. ; Arulselvan, Ashwin
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Florida. Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  University Transportation Centers Program (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Multimodal transportation
  • Evacuation
  • Disasters and emergency operations
  • Multimodal transportation
  • Evacuation
  • Disasters and emergency operations
• Publication/ Report Number:
  2008-005
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Florida
• Edition:
  Final report.
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of Florida. Center for Multimodal Solutions for Congestion Mitigation
• Abstract:
  In this research, a multimodal transportation model was developed attending the needs of emergency situations, and the solutions provided by the model could be used to moderate congestion during such events. The model incorporated features such as lane reversals as they have a significant impact on the evacuation efficiency. We proposed analytical techniques to solve the model. In this project, we developed a multimodal evacuation model and we hope to apply the model for an event management at the football stadium at University of Florida. The model is used to establish optimal evacuation routes to the bimodal evacuation problem and obtain efficient loading schemes for the staged evacuation. As a future extension, we are working on acceleration of the convergence of the algorithm.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/24709/dot_24709_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 535.44 KB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:fd091d2f1bae534f2e7faf98016979ed93fd104422e0a839d10ac66562ed4fee