Highlights ► A detailed mathematical program for evacuating urban areas is provided. ► Decision support for street usage in contraflow direction is given. ► Conflicts with regard to crossing and merging traffic flows are taken into account. ► Heuristics are proposed. ► Evacuation time can be estimated.
Abstract Real life situations like floods, hurricanes or chemical accidents may cause the evacuation of a certain area to rescue the affected population. To enable a fast and a safe evacuation a basic mixed-integer evacuation model has been developed that provides a reorganization of the traffic routing of a certain area for the case of an evacuation. This basic problem of evacuation minimizes the evacuation-time while prohibiting conflicts within intersections. Our evacuation model is a dynamic network flow problem with additional variables for the number and direction of used lanes and with additional complicating constraints. Because of the size of the time-expanded network, the computational effort required by standard software is already very high for tiny instances. To deal with realistic instances we propose a heuristic approach.
A basic mathematical model for evacuation problems in urban areas
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice ; 45 , 6 ; 523-539
2011-03-29
17 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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