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Responding to the Unexpected: Development of a Dynamic Data-Drvien Model for effective Evacuation

Status:  Complete
Report Date:  12/31/2009

Summary:

Researchers developed an evacuation software tool for small-scale, no-notice evacuations that determines evacuee departure rates, time schedules, shortest paths and critical intersections for police officer deployment. The tool provides substantially improved network clearance times when compared to other approaches to traffic assignment.

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