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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"contraflow"”.
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Time-efficient Evacuation Routing Algorithm Incorporating Contraflow
… 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 evacuation using contraflow and minimum …
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Evaluating Responses to Contraflow for Hurricane Evacuation
… 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 concentrated on one particular strategy, contraflow …
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Evaluating the Suitability of Phased Evacuation and Contraflow for the Evacuation of Boston's Coastal Population
… 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 order to …
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International news contraflow in the United States and Canada: struggles over North American media markets and regulation of Al Jazeera and China Central Television
In this dissertation, I examine news media contraflow, flows of news and information from historically underrepresented parts of the globe into advanced media systems. I assess North American governance of news media flows in light of increased availability of nonwestern news organizations. The …
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Assessment of Evacuation Network Performance under Different Evacuation Scenarios: The Florida Keys
… flashing yellow signals, conflict elimination, contraflow, and emergency shoulder use. From this, it was determined that the modifications to the intersections with traffic control devices – flashing yellow signals and conflict elimination, did not drastically alter the evacuation process. …
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A Framework for Developing and Integrating Effective Routing Strategies Within the Emergency Decision Support System
… to evacuee traffic. To alleviate the congestion, contraflow lanes should be used on Montgomery Street (which becomes Bird Avenue) to help reduce congestion. While contraflow lanes helped the situation, traffic incidents potentially resulting from all the chaos could complicate evacuations.</p> …
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Traffic impact assessment and mitigation strategies for disruptions
… of different traffic management strategies -- 1) contraflow crossover and ramp closure optimization and 2) reservation-based intersection control in connected and autonomous vehicle environment.