Two-Level Integrated Optimization System for Planning of Emergency Evacuation
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 132, Issue 10
Abstract
This paper presents a two-level integrated optimization system for use in generating the candidate set of optimal evacuation plans that serve as the input for simulation-based evacuation systems. In the proposed system, the high-level optimization aims to maximize the throughput during the specified evacuation duration, and the low-level optimization is intended to minimize the total travel time as well as the waiting time for the entire operation if the specified duration is sufficient for meeting all evacuation demands. To effectively represent traffic flow relations with mathematical formulations, this paper employs the cell transmission concept, but with a revised formulation for large-scale network applications. The performance of the proposed models and their applicability has been tested with a microscopic simulation program that replicates the Ocean City evacuation network. Evaluation results from these numerical studies have demonstrated the promising properties of the proposed integrated optimization system.
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Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 132 • Issue 10 • October 2006
Pages: 800 - 807
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© 2006 ASCE.
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Received: Sep 2, 2005
Accepted: Mar 20, 2006
Published online: Oct 1, 2006
Published in print: Oct 2006
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