Planning for a bus-based evacuation

OR Spectrum

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 629-654

  Bish, Douglas R ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster management; Evacuation planning; Mixed integer programming; Vehicle routing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959689831     PISSN: 01716468     EISSN: 14366304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00291-011-0256-1     Document Type: Article

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