Mathematical Models for Evacuation Planning in Urban Areas

• Main Author: Bretschneider, Sarah (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 659
• Subjects: Business.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Algorithms.; Mathematical optimization.; Graph theory.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Optimization.; Discrete Optimization.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Graph Theory.

Disasters like floods, hurricanes, chemical or nuclear accidents may cause the necessity to evacuate the affected area. The evacuation of  the urban area needs to be planned carefully. One issue is the reorganization of the traffic routing. Congested urban areas  have usually complex street networks...