An Activity-Based Multimodal Model Structure to assess Transportation Management Strategies for Urban Emergencies

There are many kinds of disasters that can severely impact the transportation system of an urbanized region. Transportation authorities therefore need to develop management strategies to adequately deal with such emergencies. In this paper, we discuss the structure of a simulation model that can be used to assess a candidate strategy. We model...

A General Activity-based Methodology for Simulating Multimodal Transportation Networks during Emergencies

Paper + lecture. Many possible emergency conditions, including evacuations, negatively affect the urban transportation system by substantially increasing the travel demand and/or reducing the supplied capacity. We develop a new, general and efficient methodology suitable for simulating multimodal transportation systems subject to a wide range of...