The vulnerability of the road transportation networks' infrastructures worldwide that can
adversely be affected by the extreme weather conditions needs comprehensive assessment …

Considering the continuous growth of optimization methods and its importance to
Emergency Management (EM) systems, this review paper introduces and discusses the …

This paper discusses a dynamic evacuation network optimization problem that incorporates
lane reversal and crossing elimination strategies. These two lane-based planning strategies …

Advances in autonomous vehicles and intelligent transportation systems indicate a rapidly
approaching future in which intelligent vehicles will automatically handle the process of …

We consider the problem of evacuating an urban area. Several planning aspects need to be
considered in such a scenario, which are usually considered separately. We propose a …

Taxi GPS traces can inform us the human mobility patterns in modern cities. Instead of
leveraging the costly and inaccurate human surveys about people's mobility, we intend to …

The need to create effective plans for distributing aid after a hurricane is of increasing
importance in the transport community, as recent research suggests stronger storms will be …

In the last decades, research on emergency traffic management has received high attention
from the operations research community and many pioneer researchers have established it …

Hurricanes result in large scale evacuations almost every year. Of particular concern and
difficulty is the decision of whether or not to evacuate hospitals in these emergencies. During …

The abstract network is a generalization of the classical network which is associated with the
set of elements and linearly ordered subset of elements, known as paths, that satisfy …