01023111

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/1942-01

http://scholar.google.com...nger&publication_year=2006

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have sparked renewed interest in developing effective policies and strategies for evacuating densely populated areas. The current analytical tools for dealing with such evacuations are sorely lacking in both theory and practice. The conceptual model presented joins the technical areas of cellular automatons, evolutionary computation, and transportation science with some recent research on infrastructure security to make significant progress in traffic management and hazard response systems. The overall goal of this research is to develop a fundamental understanding of the evolutionary and emergent behavior of transportation systems that are operating under emergency evacuation conditions. This new knowledge can be used to develop more effective operational strategies and consequently more robust hazard response systems. Furthermore, the specific research objective is to investigate the formulation and application of cellular automaton models of metropolitan transportation systems, with a focus on systems operating under emergency evacuation conditions. The basic context is evacuation of a defined urban area, such as the urban core of Washington, D.C., under terrorist attacks. The conceptual model proposes the use of evolutionary algorithms to search the space of the evacuation control strategies and determine the most successful strategies for a given urban area.

01030645

English

pp 1-8

2006

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

0309094240

Print

Figures (7) ; References (27)

Conceptual models; Disaster preparedness; Emergency management; Emergency response time; Evacuation; Hazard analysis; Hazards and emergency operations; Highway traffic control; Infrastructure; Safety and security; Terrorism

Terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Mar 3 2006 10:35AM

• An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Security Perception on Intercity Mode Choice: A Panel Rank-Ordered Mixed Logit Model
• Framework for Analysis of Security Measures Within On-Airport Cargo Facilities
• Preliminary Assessment of Activity and Modeling for Homeland Security Applications
• Security Awareness and Alertness Training in States' Departments of Transportation
• Trade-Offs Between Security and Inspection Capacity: Policy Options for Land Border Ports of Entry