TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Buffering in evacuation management for optimal traffic demand distribution
JO  - Transportation research part E: logistics and transportation review
A1  - Duanmu, Jun
A1  - Chowdhury, Mashrur
A1  - Taaffe, Kevin
A1  - Jordan, Craig
SP  - 684
EP  - 700
VL  - 48
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 />
LA  - en
SN  - 1366-5545
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2011.12.002
ID  - ref1
ER  -