This paper presents a review of highway-based evacuation modeling and simulation and its
evolution over the past decade. The review includes the major components of roadway …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to present a literature review of humanitarian logistics
(HL) that aims to identify trends and suggest some directions for future research …

This article shows how the evolution of multi-commodity traffic flows over complex networks
can be predicted over time, based on a simple macroscopic computer representation of …

Disasters are large intractable problems that test the ability of communities and nations to
effectively protect their populations and infrastructure, to reduce both human and property …

As a well balanced and fully illustrated introductory text, this book provides a comprehensive
overview of the physical, technological and social components of natural disaster. The main …

This paper presents a multimodal evacuation simulation for a near-field tsunami through an
agent-based modeling framework in Netlogo. The goals of this paper are to investigate (1) …

The metaphor of a" cognitive map" has attracted wide interest since it was first proposed in
the late 1940s. Researchers from fields as diverse as psychology, geography, and urban …

Large-Scale Evacuation introduces the reader to the steps involved in evacuation modelling
for towns and cities, from understanding the hazards that can require large-scale …

Disaster relief presents many unique logistics challenges, with problems including damaged
transportation infrastructure, limited communication, and coordination of multiple agents …

Most traffic delays in regional evacuations occur at intersections. Lane-based routing is one
strategy for reducing these delays. This paper presents a network flow model for identifying …