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Showing 1 to 20 of 274 for “"Evacuation"”.
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Rail Tunnel Evacuation
… knowledge is presented related to the evacuation of passenger trains, and the subsequent tunnel evacuation to a safe location. More specifically, a theoretical framework that can aid the understanding of human behavior is identified, and its applicability to rail tunnels is …
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Simulating hospital evacuation
In hospitals, evacuation of those with severe movement impairments can be highly problematic – for the patients, for the staff and for the other evacuees. It is critical to understand the performance of horizontal and vertical evacuation strategies, including the means by which people with reduced …
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Beyond the evacuation zone: Japanese evacuation and resettlement in Spokane, Washington
… scholars have investigated the effects of the evacuation, relocation, and resettlement program on non- evacuated communities with pre-World War II Japanese populations. Located outside the prohibited coastal zones in eastern Washington, Spokane's Japanese community of approximately 300 was not …
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Assessment of Evacuation Network Performance under Different Evacuation Scenarios: The Florida Keys
… of this research is to better understand the evacuation of a coastal community, the Florida Keys. This will aid in the planning, mitigation, response, and recovery of this community when a hurricane threatens to destroy their homes. To achieve this, a model of the Florida Keys was built in …
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Vertical transport evacuation modelling
… utilising such devices in actual buildings for evacuations is rare. Despite a select number of structures throughout the world allowing the use of vertical transport devices within evacuation scenarios, little is understood with regards to evacuation vertical transport strategies and to what …
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Evacuation of Special Facilities
… been studied. The focus has mostly been on the evacuation of hospitals. For the hospital evacuation planner, it is necessary to know how long it would take to evacuate the premises. To approach this problem, the entire evacuation process has been modeled as a queuing situation using a simulation …
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The Impact of Optimism On Evacuation Behavior In South Carolina Hurricane Evacuation Zones
… studying the impact of optimism on proactive evacuation behavior, perceptions of control, and coping skills. Optimism levels may not be the first indicator of a population at risk, but can help to validate specific populations that may not evacuate when necessary. Applying the optimism …
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A distributed building evacuation system
… investigates the feasibility of a smart building evacuation system, capable of guiding occupants along safe paths to exits and responding to changing threats. Inspired by developments in amorphous computing, the design presented is scalable to large networks, robust to hardware and communication …
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Network Models In Evacuation Planning
… and analysis of optimization models for evacuation planning. Specifically we consider the cases of large-scale regional evacuation using household vehicles and hospital evacuation. Since it is difficult to estimate the exact number of people evacuating, we first consider the case where …
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Evaluating the Suitability of Phased Evacuation and Contraflow for the Evacuation of Boston's Coastal Population
… planners have considered utilizing phased evacuation and contraflow strategies as a means to more effectively evacuate. This research attempted to determine whether phased evacuation or contraflow are suitable evacuation strategies that can be incorporated into Boston's evacuation plan in …
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Hierarchical framework for flood evacuation: Optimization of evacuation order policies with consideration of human behavior
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Dynamic route choice in hurricane evacuation
… developed for modeling route choice in hurricane evacuation. Two behavioral hypotheses are evaluated which together with the route choice model, constitute the contributions of the research. The first hypothesis states that beside congestion, other variables such as familiarity with the route, …
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Evacuation Distributed Feedback Control and Abstraction
… are overlooked. The models representing evacuation dynamics are based on the laws of conservation of mass and momentum and are described by nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations. As such the system is distributed in nature. We address the design of feedback control for these …
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Temporal-Spatial Analysis of Emergency Evacuation Traffic
<p>Mass evacuations, particularly those at a statewide level, represent the largest single-event traffic movements that exist. These complex events can last several days, cover thousands of miles of roadway, and include hundreds of thousands of people and vehicles. Often, they are also marked by …
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Agent-based Modeling of Emergency Building Evacuation
<p>Panic during emergency building evacuation can cause crowd stampede, resulting in serious injuries and casualties. Agent-based methods have been successfully employed to investigate the collective human behavior during emergency evacuation in cases where the configurational space is extremely …
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Time-efficient Evacuation Routing Algorithm Incorporating Contraflow
… situations such as hurricane Sandy, an effective evacuation plan possibly with contraflows is required. In order to achieve an effective evacuation plan, evacuation time and computation time need to be short. In this thesis two aspects of evacuation algorithms are discussed: minimum time …
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Quantifying human performance during passenger ship evacuation
… the maritime industry, provides guidelines for evacuation analyses for passenger ships [1]. The scope of work presented in this dissertation fills gaps in our understanding of human performance during the evacuation process on passenger ships, particularly as it relates to passengers’ alarm …
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Emergency Evacuation Modeling with Consideration of Fairness
… happens, the demand for available emergency evacuation resources increases considerably and lack of a proper emergency evacuation planning and resource management may lead to an increase in the severity of damages and fatalities resulted from the hazard. Among the three main modes of …
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Evaluating Responses to Contraflow for Hurricane Evacuation
… high travel demands associated with hurricane evacuations require some strategies, such as contraflow sections, to be included in hurricane evacuation plans. However, the response or reaction of the evacuees to these strategies has not been given much attention in the past. This study …
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