Incident Occurrence Modeling during Hurricane Evacuation Events : The Case of Alabama's I-65 Corridor

Joint Authors

Moynihan, Gary P.
Fonseca, Daniel J.
Lou, Yingyan
Gurupackiam, Saravanan

Source

Modelling and Simulation in Engineering

Issue

Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-6, 6 p.

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Publication Date

2013-10-07

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

6

Main Subjects

Civil Engineering

Abstract EN

Contraflow on major evacuation routes is one scheme that has been adopted in many Gulf and eastern coastal states for hurricane evacuation.

The idea is to reverse one direction of the roadway in order to accommodate the often substantially increased travel demand moving away from the impact area.

Efficient planning and operation is critical to a successful contraflow implementation.

Alabama has an approximately 140-mile contraflow segment on I-65 between exit 31 and exit 167 and has carried out contraflow operations several times in past hurricane evacuations.

The timing for the deployment of equipment and personnel and the initiation and termination of actual contraflow affects the effectiveness, safety, and cost of the operation.

Researchers from the University of Alabama were tasked with the design of a decision support system for contraflow evacuation planning.

The conceived decision support system consists of three main modules: the demand module, the network optimization module, and the incident and characterization module.

This paper focuses on the design of the traffic incident generation and characterization module of the planned decision support system.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Fonseca, Daniel J.& Lou, Yingyan& Moynihan, Gary P.& Gurupackiam, Saravanan. 2013. Incident Occurrence Modeling during Hurricane Evacuation Events : The Case of Alabama's I-65 Corridor. Modelling and Simulation in Engineering،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-451287

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Fonseca, Daniel J.…[et al.]. Incident Occurrence Modeling during Hurricane Evacuation Events : The Case of Alabama's I-65 Corridor. Modelling and Simulation in Engineering No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-451287

American Medical Association (AMA)

Fonseca, Daniel J.& Lou, Yingyan& Moynihan, Gary P.& Gurupackiam, Saravanan. Incident Occurrence Modeling during Hurricane Evacuation Events : The Case of Alabama's I-65 Corridor. Modelling and Simulation in Engineering. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-451287

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-451287