STATE-DEPENDENT QUEUEING MODELS IN EMERGENCY EVACUATION NETWORKS

Planning and design of evacuation networks is both a complex and critically important problem for a number of emergency situations. One particularly critical class of examples concerns the emergency evacuation of chemical plants, high-rise buildings, and naval vessels due to fire, explosion or other emergency. The problem is a highly transient, stochastic, nonlinear, integer programming problem and previous methodologies utilizing queueing network models have proved useful in the design of emergency evacuation plans. We enhance this class of queueing network models by adding state-dependent queueing models to capture the nonlinear effects of increased occupant traffic flow along emergency evacuation routes. A mean value analysis algorithm and computational experience of the methodology illustrates the model's usefulness for this class of network design problems.

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  Pergamon Press, Incorporated

  Headington Hill Hall
  Oxford OX30BW,    
• Authors:
  • Smith, J M
• Publication Date: 1991-12

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 373-389
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
  • Volume: 25B
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0191-2615
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01912615

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Disaster preparedness; Disasters and emergency operations; Evacuation; Explosions; Fires; Industrial plants; Multistory structures; Network analysis (Planning); Queuing; Traffic flow theory
• Uncontrolled Terms: Emergency procedures; Network flows
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00621231
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 30 1992 12:00AM