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 …

Researchers have examined a wide range of factors that affect evacuation decisions after
people hear hurricane forecasts and other information. This review of the literature focuses …

The Protective Action Decision Model (PADM) is a multistage model that is based on
findings from research on people's responses to environmental hazards and disasters. The …

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 …

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) …

9/11. Tornadoes. Emergency preparedness. Whether explaining parts per million to a
community exposed to contaminated groundwater or launching a campaign to encourage …

The events of September 11th shocked the nation and painfully illustrated our vulnerability
to international terrorist attacks. Despite some of the most sophisticated models, monitoring …

Dynamic traffic simulation models are frequently used to support decisions when planning
an evacuation. This contribution reviews the different (mathematical) model formulations …

Hurricane Matthew was the deadliest Atlantic storm since Katrina in 2005 and prompted one
of the largest recent hurricane evacuations along the Southeastern coast of the United …

This study collected data on the evacuation from Hurricane Lili to answer questions about
households' reliance on information sources, the factors affecting their decisions to …