Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1023611 | Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review | 2012 | 17 Pages |
This paper presents a new framework for managing congestion during emergency evacuations. The algorithm allows a long link of the network to be used as a buffer to keep the traffic flow moving in. Concurrently, a detour trigger time is estimated to keep the traffic under-saturated in the buffer zone and minimize the total travel time. The integration algorithm presented in this paper is an efficient mathematical solution for travel time cost calculation. A case study is presented to demonstrate the efficacy of the traffic demand buffering strategy developed in this research for managing the evacuation flow.
► An event-driven framework for optimal evacuation traffic distribution is presented. ► A “buffer-based” integration algorithm for travel cost calculation is presented. ► A case study demonstrated the efficacy of the framework and algorithms.