Reliable evacuation planning via demand inflation and supply deflation

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1086-1094

  Ng, ManWo ^a   Waller, S Travis ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Demand inflation; Dynamic traffic assignment; Evacuation; Reliability; Supply deflation; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMAND ANALYSIS; INFLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANNING METHOD; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77954309587     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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