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Emergency Evacuation Plan Maintenance

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Encyclopedia of GIS

Synonyms

Contingency management system; Incident management system; Evacuation logistics planning; Massive evacuations; Emergency preparedness & response

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Emergency evacuation is the process of moving people out of a dangerous area as quickly and orderly as possible. The threats could be precipitated by natural or man-made events. For example, an accidental fire, a radiation emission, a chemical explosion, a bomb threat, or a major hurricane. The goal of a carefully designed emergency evacuation plan is to optimize the usage of available transportation resources and reduce the evacuation time in order to save lives when the disaster occurs.

The evacuation area can be as small as a room or a building, or as large as multi-county metropolitan area. The simplest evacuation plan could be the exit signs directing people to the nearest egress point combined with a public announcement system inside the building. For a mass evacuation of large areas for events such as hurricanes...

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  1. Geographic Information Science & Technology Group, Computational Science & Engineering, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

    Cheng Liu & Mark Tuttle

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  1. Cheng Liu
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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Shashi Shekhar (McKnight Distinguished University Professor) (McKnight Distinguished University Professor)

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    Hui Xiong (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Liu, C., Tuttle, M. (2008). Emergency Evacuation Plan Maintenance. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_344

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