Minimizing patient transport times during mass population evacuations

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2196, 2010, Pages 150-158

  Duanmu, Jun ^a   Taaffe, Kevin ^a   Chowdhury, Mashrur ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY TRAFFIC CONTROL; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; HURRICANES; PLANNING; SOFTWARE TESTING; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EMERGENCY EVACUATION; EVACUATION ROUTES; EVACUATION TIME; GENERAL POPULATION; HEALTHCARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL EVACUATION; HURRICANE EVACUATION; SIMULATION MODEL; TIME-DELAYS; TRANSPORT TIME;

TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 79951667435     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2196-16     Document Type: Article

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