TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - An integrated scenario ensemble-based framework for hurricane evacuation modeling: Part 1-Decision support system
JO  - Risk analysis
A1  - Davidson, Rachel A.
A1  - Nozick, Linda K.
A1  - Wachtendorf, Tricia
A1  - Blanton, Brian
A1  - Colle, Brian
A1  - Kolar, Randall L.
A1  - DeYoung, Sarah
A1  - Dresback, Kendra M.
A1  - Yi, Wenqi
A1  - Yang, Kun
A1  - Leonardo, Nicholas
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - This article introduces a new integrated scenario-based evacuation (ISE) framework to support hurricane evacuation decision making. It explicitly captures the dynamics, uncertainty, and human-natural system interactions that are fundamental to the challenge of hurricane evacuation, but have not been fully captured in previous formal evacuation models. The hazard is represented with an ensemble of probabilistic scenarios, population behavior with a dynamic decision model, and traffic with a dynamic user equilibrium model. The components are integrated in a multistage stochastic programming model that minimizes risk and travel times to provide a tree of evacuation order recommendations and an evaluation of the risk and travel time performance for that solution. The ISE framework recommendations offer an advance in the state of the art because they: (1) are based on an integrated hazard assessment (designed to ultimately include inland flooding), (2) explicitly balance the sometimes competing objectives of minimizing risk and minimizing travel time, (3) offer a well-hedged solution that is robust under the range of ways the hurricane might evolve, and (4) leverage the substantial value of increasing information (or decreasing degree of uncertainty) over the course of a hurricane event. A case study for Hurricane Isabel (2003) in eastern North Carolina is presented to demonstrate how the framework is applied, the type of results it can provide, and how it compares to available methods of a single scenario deterministic analysis and a two-stage stochastic program.<br><br>© 2018 Society for Risk Analysis.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0272-4332
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/risa.12990
ID  - ref1
ER  -