Emergency evacuation planning as a network design problem: A critical review

Transportation Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-58

  Abdelgawad, Hossam ^a   Abdulhai, Baher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emergency evacuation modeling; Network design problem; Optimization; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 81955166103     PISSN: 19427867     EISSN: 19427875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3328/TL.2009.01.01.41-58     Document Type: Review

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