Despite the widely recognized importance of evacuation planning for residents with special needs – in this paper … to the numerous empirical research studies on the evacuation behavior of the general population. In this paper, we …

Almost all engineering evacuation models define the objective as minimizing the time required to clear the region or …-level optimization that reframes the decision more broadly. The upper level develops an evacuation plan that describes, as a hurricane … that is efficient enough for full-scale hurricane evacuation applications. The model can be used both to provide an …

from tropical cyclones. This problem can be decomposed into the behavior of the hurricane that is relevant to evacuation … in an evacuation management decision support system (EMDSS). The hurricane EMDSS described here displays information … about the minimum, most, and maximum probable evacuation time estimates (ETEs) in comparison to the earliest, most, and …

influenced their decision to leave. Surveys were conducted along two major evacuation routes on August 30 and 31, 2008, to … collect time-sensitive data on individual evacuation decisions related to the meteorological hazards from Hurricane Gustav …