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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 -