Name
Abstract | ||
|---|---|---|
Virginia's hurricane evacuation plan consists of two major components: an Abbreviated Transportation Model (ATM) and a Traffic Control Plan (TCP). The ATM contains the number of people and vehicles evacuating from each geographic zone, which is determined based on socioeconomic and behavioral characteristics combined with threat assessment. The ATM assigns vehicles to designated evacuation routes based on their origin zone. The traffic control plan provides detailed information on management of evacuation traffic. Measures in the traffic control plan include 2-phase evacuation, open/close ramps, ramp meters, lane reversal scheme, etc. In addition to I-64, Rt. 17, Rt. 460, Rt. 58, Rt. 60, and Rt. 100 are all designated evacuation routes. The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) performed an evaluation study of the Hampton Roads evacuation routes to determine where severe traffic situations might occur during evacuation. Their study mainly focused on the interstate routes in the region and the operational characteristics of the arterial evacuation routes were not analyzed although the arterial routes carry a significant portion of evacuation traffic. In this preliminary study, we expanded the evacuation network by including a second major arterial evacuation route, i.e., US Route 58, because a significant portion of vehicles from Virginia Beach, Norfolk, and Chesapeake use Rt. 58 to escape. We then performed traffic analysis using the same ATM and TCP but with Rt. 58 included. It was found that traffic on Rt. 58 would have mild impact on the overall evacuation. Simulation results include traffic volume, clearance time, travel time, delay time, etc. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
2007 | SpringSim (3) | 2-phase evacuation,hurricane evacuation plan,overall evacuation,evacuation traffic,arterial evacuation route,traffic control plan,arterial routes preliminary study,hampton roads evacuation route,evacuation network,hampton roads hurricane evacuation,evacuation route,major arterial evacuation route,transportation |
Field | DocType | ISBN |
Traffic analysis,Simulation,Computer science,Hurricane evacuation,Transport engineering,VisSim,Threat assessment,Traffic volume,Travel time | Conference | 1-56555-314-4 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 1 |
Authors | ||
2 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yuzhong Shen | 1 | 184 | 21.96 |
| John A. Sokolowski | 2 | 18 | 9.14 |