Transportation and Evacuation Planning
A strong understanding of evacuation options for various emergency scenarios is critical to effective emergency management. So is the knowledge that the most successful evacuation strategies are built on a thorough understanding of human and social behavior.
Planning, communicating with people in mind.
IEM helps customers understand what people will actually do when facing an emergency situation and then helps them plan and communicate with these predicable behavior patterns in mind. Combining the results of human behavioral research with the latest modeling technologies and geospatial analysis tools, IEM has conducted evacuation studies for states, cities, and industrial facilities across the U.S. for a variety of hazards, including biological, nuclear, industrial chemical, chemical weapons, and natural hazards.
IEM's evacuation planning capabilities include:
- Evacuation Modeling—Evacuation feasibility analysis, evacuation time estimates (ETEs), congestion analysis.
- Travel Demand Modeling—Demand forecasting, travel behavior analysis, role of accessibility and mobility, origin-destination (OD) studies, dynamic traffic assignment problems.
- Transportation Systems Analysis—Traffic impact analysis, congestion mitigation, signal timing and coordination, pre-trip information systems (PTISs), intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), stochastic user-equilibrium analysis, system optimal (SO) and user optimal (UO) analysis.
- Logistics & Operation Research Analysis— Network connectivity, facility location, fleet assignment, vehicle routing, inter-modal analysis, inventory management, supply chain management including just-in-time (JIT) analysis, emergency response plan (ERP) analysis, school bus logistics.
