NICTA Evacuation Planner: Actionable Evacuation Plans with Contraflows

Author:

Even, Caroline; Pillac, Victor; Van Hentenryck, Pascal

Date of Publication:

2014-08-18

Publication Type:

Conference Material

Conference Name:

Prestigious Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2014 (PAIS2014)

Conference Location:

Prague, Czech Republic

Pages:

1143-1148

Abstract:

Evacuations are a critical aspect of disaster management, and generally the first prevention measure to ensure the safety of persons under the threat of a forthcoming disaster. Designing evacuation plans is a complex task that requires to take into account multiple factors to limit congestion and ensure that all evacuees reach safety in time. In this work, we propose a conflict-based path-generation heuristic that models contraflows and a web-based intelligent system targeted at local authorities and emergency services. The contributions of this paper are threefold: first, we propose the first scalable approach to produce actionable evacuation plans that simultaneously plan the evacuation and select contraflow roads; second, we present NICTA Evacuation Planner, a user oriented tool to model, plan, and simulate evacuations; finally, we illustrate the benefits of contraflows on two large-scale case studies.

Keywords:

evacuation planning, contraflow

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-419-0-1143

URL:

http://www.ecai2014.org/pais/

Identifier:

nicta:7929

Attribution Statement:

Even, Caroline; Pillac, Victor; Van Hentenryck, Pascal. NICTA Evacuation Planner: Actionable Evacuation Plans with Contraflows. In: Prestigious Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2014 (PAIS2014); Prague, Czech Republic. 2014-08-18. 1143-1148. nicta:7929. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-419-0-1143