TY - JOUR

T1 - Transit dependent evacuation planning for Kathmandu Valley

T2 - a case study

AU - Pyakurel, Urmila

AU - Goerigk, Marc

AU - Dhamala, Tanka Nath

AU - Hamacher, Horst W.

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - Due to the increasing number of natural or man-made disasters, the application of operations research methods in evacuation planning has seen a rising interest in the research community. From the beginning, evacuation planning has been highly focused on car-based evacuation. Recently, also the evacuation of transit depended evacuees with the help of buses has been considered.In this case study, we apply two such models and solution algorithms to evacuate a core part of themetropolitan capital city Kathmandu of Nepal as a hypothetical endangered region, where a large partof population is transit dependent. We discuss the computational results for evacuation time under abroad range of possible scenarios, and derive planning suggestions for practitioners.

AB - Due to the increasing number of natural or man-made disasters, the application of operations research methods in evacuation planning has seen a rising interest in the research community. From the beginning, evacuation planning has been highly focused on car-based evacuation. Recently, also the evacuation of transit depended evacuees with the help of buses has been considered.In this case study, we apply two such models and solution algorithms to evacuate a core part of themetropolitan capital city Kathmandu of Nepal as a hypothetical endangered region, where a large partof population is transit dependent. We discuss the computational results for evacuation time under abroad range of possible scenarios, and derive planning suggestions for practitioners.

M3 - Journal article

VL - 5

SP - 49

EP - 73

JO - International Journal of Operational Research/Nepal

JF - International Journal of Operational Research/Nepal

IS - 1

ER -