Modeling multimodal transportation network emergency evacuation considering evacuees’ cooperative behavior

Xia Yang, Ban, Xuegang (Jeff) and John Mitchell

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2018, vol. 114, issue PB, 380-397

Abstract: Modeling emergency evacuation could help reduce losses and damages from disasters. In this paper, based on the system optimum principle, we develop a multimodal evacuation model that considers multiple transportation modes and their interactions, and captures the proper traffic dynamics including the congestion effects, the cooperative behavior of evacuees, and the capacities of the transportation system and the shelters. We further develop a Method of Successive Average (MSA)-based sequential optimization algorithm for large-scale evacuation problems. Both the proposed model and the solution algorithm are tested and validated through a set of numerical tests on a small network, and a detailed case study on the Lower Manhattan network. The results of the paper can provide insight on modeling flow interactions of different transportation modes and useful guidance on developing evacuation strategies to reduce the system evacuation time and losses from disasters.

Keywords: Emergency evacuation; Multimodal emergency evacuation modeling; Interactions of intermodal travels; Cooperative travel behavior; MSA-based sequential optimization; Large-scale evacuation; Double queue model; Point queue model; Dynamic system optimum (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2018.01.037

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