Technological advances in evacuation planning and emergency management : current state of the art.

680652488Final report; Jan. 2003-June 2003.PDFTech ReportEVAC-RU4474EvacuationDisasters and emergency operationsEmergenciesEmergency transportationNew JerseyRutgers University. Center for Advanced Infrastructure & TransportationJafari, MohsenBakhadyrov, IzzatMaher, AliRutgers University. Center for Advanced Infrastructure & TransportationUnited States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Special Programs AdministrationUnited States. Federal Highway AdministrationNTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-PLANNING AND POLICYUS Transportation CollectionEvacuation of people in the event of hazard is one of basic problems of human society. From earlyages people planned their habitat with possibility of hazards in mind. For instance, one of The SevenWonders of the World, the Temple of Artemis, was built on a swamp, to protect it and its personnelfrom earthquakes often in that area. With the course of history, complexity of human built buildingsand infrastructures grew, as well as a population density. This increased the dangers imposed by anyhazard, occurring in densely populated areas, and imposed higher requirements on evacuation andemergency management. Nowadays, evacuation planning and emergency management became asophisticated field of civil engineering sciences, aimed to save human lives by safe facility design andoptimization of rescue operations. To do so, it uses latest achievements in number of various bothfundamental and applied disciplines, such as Simulation, Process Control, Applied Mathematics,Psychology, Architecture, Physics and many others. In this work we attempt to present a survey ofvarious approaches and technologies, being developed and being used for Evacuation Planning andEmergency Management