IMPROVING THE RELIABILITY OF STREET NETWORKS IN HIGHLY DENSELY POPULATED URBAN AREAS

The study assumes that emergency vehicles should have smooth access to residences after a large scale disaster. Proposed is the accessible node rate (ANR) that represents the ratio of the number of accessible nodes to the total nodes in the network in order to evaluate the reliability of a local street network. As a case study, the paper examined urban districts in Kobe City where the magnitude of an earthquake was strong and proposed planning changes to provide the local street networks with higher reliability. Also developed was a system that supports traffic network editing and analysis for reducing the workload in a wider area.

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• Authors:
  • Li, Yixuan
  • Tsukaguchi, H
• Conference:
  • Network Reliability of Transport. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability (INSTR)
  • Location: Kyoto, Japan
  • Date: 2001-7-31 to 2001-8-1
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 261-272

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Earthquakes; Emergency vehicles; Improvements; Population density; Reliability; Streets; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: Kobe (Japan)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00973652
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0080441092
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: May 18 2004 12:00AM