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A Framework for Developing and Integrating Effective Routing Strategies Within the Emergency Management Decision-Support System, Research Report 11-12
Mineta Transportation Institute Publications
  • Anurag Pande, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
  • Frances Edwards, San Jose State University
  • Joseph Yu
Description

This report describes the modeling, calibration, and validation of a VISSIM traffic-flow simulation of the San José, California, downtown network and examines various evacuation scenarios and first-responder routings to assess strategies that would be effective in the event of a no-notice disaster. The modeled network required a large amount of data on network geometry, signal timings, signal coordination schemes, and turning-movement volumes. Turning-movement counts at intersections were used to validate the network with the empirical formula-based measure known as the GEH statistic. Once the base network was tested and validated, various scenarios were modeled to estimate evacuation and emergency vehicle arrival times. Based on these scenarios, a variety of emergency plans for San José’s downtown traffic circulation were tested and validated. The model could be used to evaluate scenarios in other communities by entering their community-specific data.

Publication Date
5-1-2012
Publication Type
Report
MTI Project
2901
Keywords
  • Evacuation,
  • Emergency operations,
  • Emergency response,
  • Safety,
  • Security
Disciplines
Citation Information
Anurag Pande, Frances Edwards and Joseph Yu. "A Framework for Developing and Integrating Effective Routing Strategies Within the Emergency Management Decision-Support System, Research Report 11-12" (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/frances_edwards/79/