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 …

Emergencies, especially major ones, happen fast, randomly, as well as unpredictably, and
generally will bring great harm to people's life and the economy. Therefore, governments …

Modeling emergency evacuation could help reduce losses and damages from disasters. In
this paper, based on the system optimum principle, we develop a multimodal evacuation …

Emergency evacuation is the process of movement of people away from the threat or actual
occurrence of hazards such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, fires and bombs. In this …

With an increasing number of large-scale natural and man-created disasters over the last
decade, there is growing focus on the application of operations research techniques for …

Two network flow methods are presented in this paper to optimize a city emergency
evacuation plan. The problem is to assign each resident of the city to one of the places of …

Due to the increasing number of disasters in recent years, the studies of evacuation
planning and management continue to attract attention from both academia and …

Recent natural or man-made disasters have reminded the government to prepare an
efficient evacuation plan in advance to cope with extreme threats, especially for urban area …

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 …

Emergency evacuation aims to transport people from dangerous places to safe shelters as
quickly as possible. Police play an important role in the evacuation process, as they can …