Evacuation plan of the city of Almere: Simulating the impact of driving behavior on evacuation clearance time

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 67-75

  Tu, Huizhao ^a   Tamminga, Guus ^a,b   Drolenga, Hans ^a   De Wit, Jeroen ^a   Van Der Berg, Wouter ^a  

^a Grontmij NV   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Driving behavior; Evacuation time; Mean headway; Minimum gap

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION RATES; DRIVING BEHAVIOR; EVACUATION CONDITIONS; EVACUATION PLANS; EVACUATION TIME; MEAN HEADWAY; MINIMUM GAP; PARAMICS SIMULATION;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 78650532936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18777058     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2010.07.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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