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 …

Shelter opening and evacuation of vulnerable populations are operations crucial to disaster
response, which is one of the four phases of Disaster Operations Management (DOM) …

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 …

Evacuation modelling has developed over time from simple engineering equations that do
not consider behavioral tendencies to more sophisticated models with the potential to …

Despite having more similar roles at work and home than ever before, US men and women
continue to exhibit different travel behavior. An open question is whether the remaining …

Disasters and extreme events, both natural and man-made, can have dramatic implications
in terms of loss of human lives, well-being and economic costs. Understanding the demand …

The frequency of natural and man-made disasters has increased over the past few decades,
which has doubled the significance of evacuation planning because it directly affects …

No-notice wildfires pose a serious threat to the safety of residents, where the notification time
and departure time may all be within a matter of minutes. Here, we examine the factors …

Extreme wildfire events are fires that move too fast or erratically for adequate evacuation or
notification. Modeling evacuations from these wildfires is markedly different than modeling …

For evacuations, people must make the critical decision to evacuate or stay followed by a
multi-dimensional choice composed of concurrent decisions of their departure time …