Modeling evacuation of a transport system: Application of a multimodal mesoscopic dynamic traffic assignment model

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1157-1166

  Di Gangi, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Evacuation; networks; simulation; transportation

Indexed keywords

CIVIL PROTECTION; EMERGENCY CONDITIONS; EVACUATION; EVACUATION PLANNING; HAZARDOUS EVENTS; MESOSCOPIC DYNAMICS; MULTI-MODAL; MULTIMODAL NETWORK; NETWORK RELIABILITY; QUANTITATIVE INDICATORS; QUANTITATIVE METHODOLOGY; REAL NETWORKS; SIMULATION; TRANSPORT NETWORKS; TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); RISK PERCEPTION; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRANSPORTATION;

EMERGENCY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 82455188093     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2011.2143408     Document Type: Article

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