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Facilitating NO-Notice Evacuation Through Optimal Pick-Up Location Selection.
| 题名： | Facilitating NO-Notice Evacuation Through Optimal Pick-Up Location Selection. |
| 作者： | S. Liu; P. Murray-Tuite; |
| 关键词： | emergency evacuation,disaster management,transportation strategy,pickup locations,relocation sites;parking facilities, network lines, schools, optimization, families, performance evaluation, safety, transportation systems, decision making, travel time, tr |
| 摘要： | Under no-notice disasters, dependents in facilities such as schools and daycare centers usually wait for their families to pick them up. This family pickup behavior could increase individual time and cause extra delay to other vehicles in the network. Relocating the dependents to other pickup sites may facilitate no-notice evacuation. This study developed an optimization model to determine optimal pickup locations, assuming that all evacuating families have personal vehicles; the objective is to maximize the number of evacuees who can successfully pick up dependents and then escape from the dangerous zones within a safe evacuation time threshold. The optimization model was based on anticipated travel time output from the simulation model (VISSIM in this study); iteration between the the two models was performed. The methodology was applied to a case study based on a simplified version of Chicago Heights, Illinois. The case study involved three facilities with 492 dependents and three safe time thresholds (i.e., 30, 45 and 60 minutes). Improvements in total travel time, average speed, total delay time and average delay time per vehicle and increases in the number of successful evacuations of dependents were used to evaluate the performance of the relocation strategy. This study also examined the sensitivity of the strategy to parents' arrival time, number of dependents, and safe time. Finally, relocation sites were recommended based on the results of all scenarios. The results found that the relocation strategy was sensitive to safe evacuation time and number of pickup evacuees (pickkup evacuees refer to those persons with a need to pick up their dependents inside the dangerous zones). The relocation strategy was prominently effective when safe evacuation time fell into a moderate range or the number of pickup evacuees was fairly high. Application of the proposed methodology to a certain area can assist local decision-makers to take effective measures during no-notice evacuation and the relocation sites could be part of local evacuation management plans. / Title Note: Final rept. 01 Jan. 2008 - 09 Aug. 2008. / Supplementary Notes: Prepared in cooperation with Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg. Sponsored by Virginia Transportation Research Council, Charlottesville., Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC., Department of Transportation, Washington, DC. Research & Innovative Technology Administration (RITA). and Virginia Dept. of Transportation, Richmond. / Availability Note: Product reproduced from digital image. Order this product from NTIS by: phone at 1-800-553-NTIS (U.S. customers); (703)605-6000 (other countries); fax at (703)605-6900; and email at orders@ntis.gov. NTIS is located at 5301 Shawnee Road, Alexandria, VA, 22312, USA. / NTIS Prices: PC A04/MF A04 / NTIS In-house Control Codes: dotfha;12111,1101 |
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