Proper emergency evacuation planning is a key to ensure safety and efficiency of
transportation networks in the event of approaching natural hazards. A sound evacuation …

For many years, simultaneous evacuation of the entire facility was a common approach. The
deficiencies of this approach were revealed after many cases of casualties and evacuation …

The current study proposes an evacuation optimization model (IEO model) for mass
emergency evacuation, which aims to minimize the average completion time, avoid traffic …

Evacuation route recommendation plays an important role in emergency safety
management, especially for natural disaster. When refugees flee a disaster area, the most …

Natural disasters and terrorist attacks pose a significant threat to human society, and have
stressed an urgent need for the development of comprehensive and efficient evacuation …

According to the information asymmetry, this paper focuses on a two-stage stochastic
programming model to evacuate the affected people to safe areas during disaster response …

This paper presents mathematical models and a heuristic algorithm that address a
simultaneous evacuation and entrance planning. For the simultaneous evacuation and …

When the occupant density of buildings is large enough, evacuees are prone to congestion
during emergency evacuation, which leads to the extension of the overall escape time …

Building fires are one of the most common fire types and tend to cause heavy casualties.
During the evacuation, the shortest path makes the escapees leave the accident scene …

Considering the distances to exits, exits' capacities, the sizes of queues at exits, distances to
the nuclear power plant, as well as individual characteristics, the exit choice model for …