There are many instances in which it is possible to plan ahead for an emergency evacuation (e.g., an explosion at a chemical processing facility). For those cases, if an accident (or an attack) were to have happened, then the best evacuation plan for the prevailing network and weather conditions would be deployed. In other cases (e.g., the derailment of a train transporting hazardous materials), there may not be any previously developed plan to be implemented, and decisions must be made on an ad-hoc basis on how to proceed with an emergency evacuation. In both situations, the availability of real-time traffic information plays a critical role in the management of the evacuation operations. To improve public safety during a vehicular emergency evacuation it is necessary to detect losses of road capacity (due to incidents, for example) as early as possible. Once these bottlenecks are identified, re-routing strategies must be determined in real-time and deployed in the field to help dissipate the congestion and increase the efficiency of the evacuation. Due to cost constraints, only large urban areas have traffic sensor deployments that permit access to some sort of real-time traffic information; any evacuation taking place in any other areas of the country would have to proceed without real-time traffic information.
Real-Time Traffic Information for Emergency Evacuation Operations: Phase A Final Report
2009
104 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Emergency Services & Planning , Transportation & Traffic Planning , Police, Fire, & Emergency Services , Transportation , Road Transportation , Emergency management , Evacuation , Traffic control , Accidents , Capacity , Efficiency , Explosives , Global positioning system , Information systems , Public safety , Real time , Security , Testing , Urban areas , Weather
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