Emergency Evacuation Modeling with Consideration of Fairness

In the case of a disaster, the most critical task is to relocate population in endangered areas to the safe shelters. When a disaster 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 evacuation (i.e. vehicular, public transit and pedestrian modes of evacuation), vehicular evacuation has received the most attention in the literature while little attention has been paid to the other two modes. In addition, far less attention has been paid to the issue of fairness in emergency evacuation planning. The main body of the thesis is about developing new methodologies to optimally and fairly distribute the available resources among the endangered area population during emergency evacuation. This thesis has focused on public transit and pedestrian modes of evacuation. A variety of techniques including combinatorial techniques, such as computation complexity analysis, approximation algorithms, numerical optimization, mathematical induction and algebra, and computer programming, are used in the thesis.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Engineering – Civil

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Schulich School of Engineering

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Aalami, Soheila

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Kattan, Lina

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Waters, Nigel M.
• Vandebona, Upali
• El-Sheimy, Naser
• De Barros, Alexandre Gomes

• Emergency Evacuation
• Fairness

Statement dc:rights

• University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/36341

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ucalgary.scholaris.ca:1880/110143