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Title: Evacuee Compliance Behavior Analysis using High Resolution Demographic Information

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine whether evacuee compliance behavior with route assignments from different resolutions of demographic data would impact the evacuation performance. Most existing evacuation strategies assume that travelers will follow evacuation instructions, while in reality a certain percent of evacuees do not comply with prescribed instructions. In this paper, a comparison study of evacuation assignment based on Traffic Analysis Zones (TAZ) and high resolution LandScan USA Population Cells (LPC) were conducted for the detailed road network representing Alexandria, Virginia. A revised platform for evacuation modeling built on high resolution demographic data and activity-based microscopic traffic simulation is proposed. The results indicate that evacuee compliance behavior affects evacuation efficiency with traditional TAZ assignment, but it does not significantly compromise the efficiency with high resolution LPC assignment. The TAZ assignment also underestimates the real travel time during evacuation, especially for high compliance simulations. This suggests that conventional evacuation studies based on TAZ assignment might not be effective at providing efficient guidance to evacuees. From the high resolution data perspective, traveler compliance behavior is an important factor but it does not impact the system performance significantly. The highlight of evacuee compliance behavior analysis should be emphasized on individualmore » evacuee level route/shelter assignments, rather than the whole system performance.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. ORNL
  2. University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
Work for Others (WFO)
OSTI Identifier:
1116496
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Transportation Research Board 2014 Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., DC, USA, 20140112, 20140116
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Lu, Wei, Han, Lee, Liu, Cheng, Tuttle, Mark A, and Bhaduri, Budhendra L. Evacuee Compliance Behavior Analysis using High Resolution Demographic Information. United States: N. p., 2014. Web.
Lu, Wei, Han, Lee, Liu, Cheng, Tuttle, Mark A, & Bhaduri, Budhendra L. Evacuee Compliance Behavior Analysis using High Resolution Demographic Information. United States.
Lu, Wei, Han, Lee, Liu, Cheng, Tuttle, Mark A, and Bhaduri, Budhendra L. 2014. "Evacuee Compliance Behavior Analysis using High Resolution Demographic Information". United States.
@article{osti_1116496,
title = {Evacuee Compliance Behavior Analysis using High Resolution Demographic Information},
author = {Lu, Wei and Han, Lee and Liu, Cheng and Tuttle, Mark A and Bhaduri, Budhendra L},
abstractNote = {The purpose of this study is to examine whether evacuee compliance behavior with route assignments from different resolutions of demographic data would impact the evacuation performance. Most existing evacuation strategies assume that travelers will follow evacuation instructions, while in reality a certain percent of evacuees do not comply with prescribed instructions. In this paper, a comparison study of evacuation assignment based on Traffic Analysis Zones (TAZ) and high resolution LandScan USA Population Cells (LPC) were conducted for the detailed road network representing Alexandria, Virginia. A revised platform for evacuation modeling built on high resolution demographic data and activity-based microscopic traffic simulation is proposed. The results indicate that evacuee compliance behavior affects evacuation efficiency with traditional TAZ assignment, but it does not significantly compromise the efficiency with high resolution LPC assignment. The TAZ assignment also underestimates the real travel time during evacuation, especially for high compliance simulations. This suggests that conventional evacuation studies based on TAZ assignment might not be effective at providing efficient guidance to evacuees. From the high resolution data perspective, traveler compliance behavior is an important factor but it does not impact the system performance significantly. The highlight of evacuee compliance behavior analysis should be emphasized on individual evacuee level route/shelter assignments, rather than the whole system performance.},
doi = {},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1116496}, journal = {},
number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2014}
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