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Emergency Evacuations, Transportation Networks

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Encyclopedia of GIS

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Roadway network model; Evacuation model systems; Consequence management; Immediate response zone; Protective action zone

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Evacuation modeling systems (EMS) have been developed to facilitate the planning, analysis, and deployment of emergency evacuation of populations at risk. For any EMS, data such as road network maps, traffic control characteristics, and population distribution play critical roles in delineating emergency zones, estimating population at risk, and determining evacuation routes.

There are situations in which it is possible to plan in advance for an emergency evacuation including, for example, an explosion at a chemical processing facility or a radiological accident at a nuclear plant. In these cases, if an accident or a terrorist attack were to happen, then the best evacuation plan for the prevailing network and weather conditions would be deployed. In other instances—for example, the derailment of a train transporting hazardous materials—, there may...

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  1. National Research Council: Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism. National Academy Press, Washington DC (2002)

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  1. Engineering Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA

    Oscar Franzese

  2. Geographic Information Science & Technology Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

    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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Franzese, O., Liu, C. (2008). Emergency Evacuations, Transportation Networks. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_345

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