The 5277 Mineta Transportation Institute has released its newest peer-reviewed research report, A Framework for Developing and Integrating Effective Routing Strategies within the Emergency Management Decision-Support System. It describes the modelling, calibration, and validation of a multi-modal traffic-flow simulation of the San Jose, California, downtown network. It also examines various evacuation scenarios and first-responder routings to assess strategies that would be effective during a no-notice disaster. Other cities can use the models to plan their own emergency traffic routings. Principal investigators were Anurag Pande, Ph.D, Frances Edwards, Ph.D, and Joseph Yu.
"Spontaneous evacuations of New York City and Washington DC following the 9/11 terrorist attacks demonstrated that US cities are not prepared to manage the sudden influx of traffic into roads and highways following a no-notice disaster," said Dr. Pande. "For many years, anticipated events such as hurricanes have been the basis for evacuation planning. Now we see increasing interest in evacuation planning based on hypothetical no-notice events."
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"Spontaneous evacuations of New York City and Washington DC following the 9/11 terrorist attacks demonstrated that US cities are not prepared to manage the sudden influx of traffic into roads and highways following a no-notice disaster," said Dr. Pande. "For many years, anticipated events such as hurricanes have been the basis for evacuation planning. Now we see increasing interest in evacuation planning based on hypothetical no-notice events."
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