@article{ref1,
title="Buffering in evacuation management for optimal traffic demand distribution",
journal="Transportation research part E: logistics and transportation review",
year="2012",
author="Duanmu, Jun and Chowdhury, Mashrur and Taaffe, Kevin and Jordan, Craig",
volume="48",
number="3",
pages="684-700",
abstract="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.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1366-5545",
doi="10.1016/j.tre.2011.12.002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2011.12.002"
}