With coastal populations experiencing the growing threat of hurricanes as a consequence of
global climate change, models for predicting how household evacuation behavior may …

Disasters such as earthquake or tsunami can easily take the lives of thousands of people
and millions worth of property in a fleeting moment. A successful emergency evacuation …

This paper focuses on traffic modeling of large-scale hurricane evacuation networks.
Several research efforts to date have addressed the evacuation problem from a local …

This study proposes an aggregate approach to model evacuee behavior in the context of no-
notice evacuation operations. It develops aggregate behavior models for evacuation …

Several radiological and industrial incidents which occurred during the lust decade
refocussed the attention of various authorities to evacuation preparedness and …

Wildfire risk is increasing all over the world, particularly in the western United States and the
communities in wildland-urban interface (WUI) areas are at the greatest risk of fire …

In emergency management, tools are needed so we can take the appropriate action at
different stages of an evacuation. Recent wildfires in California showed how quickly a …

Over the past few years, rapid urbanization has stressed an urgent need for the
development of comprehensive and efficient contingency plans in urban spaces. Amongst …

Hospital evacuation is a difficult process that requires a robust strategy and careful
execution. In the past, threats leading to possible evacuation were primarily natural …

A behavioral-based simulation model for spontaneous urban evacuation is used to examine
the sensitivity of network clearance time to several traffic factors (eg interaction with …