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Title: Multiagent-Based Large-Scale Evacuation Simulation
Accession Number: 01128656
Record Type: Component
Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Abstract: The evacuation of whole cities or even regions is an important problem, as demonstrated by recent events such as evacuation of Houston in the case of Hurricane Rita or the evacuation of coastal cities in the case of tsunamis. A robust and flexible simulation framework for such large-scale disasters helps to predict the evacuation process. Furthermore, it is possible to recognize bottle-necks in advance, so that an elimination of those bottlenecks is possible. This should lead to a better preparedness for an event of evacuation for cities or regions that face a high risk of natural disasters. Existing methods are either geared towards smaller problems (e.g. Cellular Automata techniques or methods based on differential equations) or are not microscopic (e.g. methods based on dynamic traffic assignment). This paper presents a technique that is both microscopic and capable to process large problems. The simulation was applied to the Indonesian city of Padang. The city faces a high risk of being inundated by an earth quake triggered tsunami.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01120148
Report/Paper Numbers: 09-2135
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Lammel, GregorNagel, KaiPagination: 17p
Publication Date: 2009
Conference:
Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting
Location:
Washington DC, United States Media Type: DVD
Features: Figures; Maps; References
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TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Source Data: Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2009 Paper #09-2135
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Jan 30 2009 6:29PM
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