Citation

Bretschneider S, Kimms A. Transp. Res. A Policy Pract. 2011; 45(6): 523-539.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.tra.2011.03.008

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Real life situations like floods, hurricanes or chemical accidents may cause the evacuation of a certain area to rescue the affected population. To enable a fast and a safe evacuation a basic mixed-integer evacuation model has been developed that provides a reorganization of the traffic routing of a certain area for the case of an evacuation. This basic problem of evacuation minimizes the evacuation-time while prohibiting conflicts within intersections. Our evacuation model is a dynamic network flow problem with additional variables for the number and direction of used lanes and with additional complicating constraints.
Because of the size of the time-expanded network, the computational effort required by standard software is already very high for tiny instances. To deal with realistic instances we propose a heuristic approach.