Emergency evacuation planning and preparedness of transit facilities traffic simulation modeling

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1992, 2007, Pages 121-126

  Elmitiny, Noor ^a   Ramasamy, Shankar ^a   Radwan, Essam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; OPTIMIZATION; URBAN PLANNING;

EVACUATION SCENARIOS; SIGNAL OPTIMIZATION; TRAFFIC SIMULATION MODELING;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 38349174994     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1992-14     Document Type: Article

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