On Evacuation Planning Optimization Problems from Transit-based Perspective

Increasing number of complex traffic networks and disasters today has brought difficulty in managing the rush hours traffic as well as the large events in urban areas. The optimal use of the vehicles and their assignments to the appropriate shelters from the disastrous zones are highly complicated...

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Main Authors: Tanka Nath Dhamala, Iswar Mani Adhikari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Operations research society of Taiwan 2018-03-01
Series:International Journal of Operations Research
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Online Access:http://www.orstw.org.tw/ijor/vol15no1/IJOR2018_vol15_no1_p29_p47.pdf
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Summary:Increasing number of complex traffic networks and disasters today has brought difficulty in managing the rush hours traffic as well as the large events in urban areas. The optimal use of the vehicles and their assignments to the appropriate shelters from the disastrous zones are highly complicated in emergency situations. The maximum efficiency and effectiveness of the evacuation planning can be achieved by the appropriate and significant assignment of the transit dependent vehicles during pre and post-disaster operations. This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the evacuation planning optimization techniques developed over the years, emphasizing the importance of their formulation and the solution strategies on disaster management from the transit-based perspective. Each technique is briefly described and presented lucidly with some of its known applications, significances, and solution strategies expecting that it should be able to guide much more interest into this important and growing area of research.
ISSN:1813-713X
1813-7148