Adaptive Vehicle Routing for Evacuation under Uncertainty

The objective of this research project is to deliver a real-time, adaptive evacuation system for cascading events (e.g., hurricanes, following flooding, and following aftershocks). To realize this goal, the principal investigator (PI) will synthesize the existing information (e.g., flood inundation scenarios, human mobility information such as location-based social media data, U.S. Census Bureau data, past disaster statistics, and relevant weather and land conditions); establish theoretically proven experimental models; simulate evacuation plans using the synthesized data sets and models; and conceptualize and present a new approach. The adaptive evacuation transportation-planning model is anticipated to contribute to substantial improvement in understanding of natural or man-made hazards and mitigation of their effects. The target disaster type is flooding induced by hurricane and the target region is the New York City area, selected considering the potentially affected population size and the high frequency of hurricane occurrence in that region.

• Record URL:
  http://www.utrc2.org/research/projects/adaptive-vehicle-routing-evacuation

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $24211
• Contract Numbers:

  49198-24-28

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  University Transportation Research Center

  City College of New York
  Marshak Hall, Suite 910, 160 Convent Avenue
  New York, NY  United States  10031
• Project Managers:

  Eickemeyer, Penny

• Performing Organizations:

  Binghamton University State University of New York

  4400 Vestal Parkway East
  Binghamton, New York  United States  13902
• Principal Investigators:

  Chung, Sung Hoon

• Start Date: 20160901
• Expected Completion Date: 20180331
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Evacuation; Floods; Hazard mitigation; Hurricanes; Routing; Simulation; Social media; Uncertainty; Weather routing
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01607728
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: University Transportation Research Center
• Contract Numbers: 49198-24-28
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Aug 17 2016 4:02PM