SeHoon Lee, Jang Won Bae, Junseok  Lee,  Jeong Hee  Hong, and Il-Chul Moon, Simulation Experiment of Routing Strategy for Evacuees and Disaster Responders, Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim 2014), Tampa, Florida, USA, Apr 13-16, 2014

Abstract

Under urban crisis situations, one of the most important response tasks is routing the vehicles. Such crisis initiates a massive evacuation from the disaster scene to the outside; at the same time, crisis responders have to enter the scene. Whereas we need routes for responders, current disaster response plans frequently dictate to turn bidirectional roads into one-ways to ensure quick evacuation. This routing conflict should be resolved prior to actual crises, and we approached this problem with simulation based experiments. We modeled and simulated the urban traffic network, the responder agents and the evacuation agents. Our major decision factor is how to choose road lane utilization to facilitate the evacuation as well as the response. We evaluated the efficiency of the route planning with responder arrivals and evacuation durations. The results may provide some insights to disaster managers or authorities under crisis.

@inproceedings{Lee:2014:SER:2665049.2665051, 

author = {Lee, SeHoon and Bae, Jang Won and Lee, Junseok and Hong, Jeong Hee and Moon, Il-Chul}, 

title = {Simulation Experiment of Routing Strategy for Evacuees and Disaster Responders}, 

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 Symposium on Agent Directed Simulation}, 

series = {ADS '14}, 

year = {2014}, 

location = {Tampa, Florida}, 

pages = {2:1--2:8}, 

articleno = {2}, 

numpages = {8}, 

url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2665049.2665051}, 

acmid = {2665051}, 

publisher = {Society for Computer Simulation International}, 

address = {San Diego, CA, USA}, 

keywords = {agent based simulation, disaster simulation, discrete event model, urban simulator}

} 

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http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2665051