TY - GEN
T1 - NICTA evacuation planner
T2 - 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2014
AU - Even, Caroline
AU - Pillac, Victor
AU - Van Hentenryck, Pascal
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 The Authors and IOS Press.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Evacuations are a critical aspect of disaster management, and generally the first prevention measure to ensure the safety of the population under threat. Designing evacuation plans is a complex task that requires to take into account multiple factors in order to limit congestion and ensure that all evacuees reach safety in time. This paper proposes a conflict-based path-generation algorithm for evacuation planning and a web-based intelligent system targeted at local authorities and emergency services. The key contribution of this paper is to propose the first scalable approach to produce actionable evacuation plans that simultaneously schedules the evacuation and selects contraflow roads. The benefits of the approach are illustrated on two large-scale case studies. The resulting optimization model is integrated in NICTA EVACUATION PLANNER, a tool to model, plan, and simulate evacuations.
AB - Evacuations are a critical aspect of disaster management, and generally the first prevention measure to ensure the safety of the population under threat. Designing evacuation plans is a complex task that requires to take into account multiple factors in order to limit congestion and ensure that all evacuees reach safety in time. This paper proposes a conflict-based path-generation algorithm for evacuation planning and a web-based intelligent system targeted at local authorities and emergency services. The key contribution of this paper is to propose the first scalable approach to produce actionable evacuation plans that simultaneously schedules the evacuation and selects contraflow roads. The benefits of the approach are illustrated on two large-scale case studies. The resulting optimization model is integrated in NICTA EVACUATION PLANNER, a tool to model, plan, and simulate evacuations.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84923163006&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-419-0-1143
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-419-0-1143
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
SP - 1143
EP - 1148
BT - ECAI 2014 - 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Including Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems, PAIS 2014, Proceedings
A2 - Schaub, Torsten
A2 - Friedrich, Gerhard
A2 - O'Sullivan, Barry
PB - IOS Press BV
Y2 - 18 August 2014 through 22 August 2014
ER -