The evacuation optimal network design problem: Model formulation and comparisons

Transportation Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 111-119

  Ng, Man Wo ^a   Waller, S Travis ^a  

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

Author keywords

Emergency; Evacuation planning; Network design; Stochastic programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954312887     PISSN: 19427867     EISSN: 19427875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3328/TL.2009.01.02.111-119     Document Type: Article

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