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Fuzzy Evaluation of Contra-Flow Evacuation Plans in Texas Medical Center

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With the needs of emergency preparedness due to various disasters such as Hurricane, flooding, radiological accident, terrorist attack, toxic material leakage, etc., an efficient transportation evacuation plan such as contra-flow is very crucial. Simulation is a superior tool that can measure the effects of different plans, however often offers contradictory Measurement of Effectiveness (MOE), which may not directly yield out an optimal evacuation plan. In this paper, Fuzzy Logic is employed to evaluate the evacuation plan. A case study illustrates the entire evacuation process that evacuates contra-flow evacuation plans in a typical multi-institutional area: Texas Medical Center in Houston, USA.

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  1. Department of Transportation Studies, Texas Southern University, 3100 Cleburne Avenue, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

    Fengxiang Qiao, Ruixin Ge & Lei Yu

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  1. Senior Lecturer in Integrated Transport Centre for Transport & Society Faculty of the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus Coldharbour Lane, BS16 1QY, Bristol, UK

    Erel Avineri

  2. Kyushu Institute of Technology, Dept. Artificial Intelligence, 680-4 Kawazu Izuka-Shi, 820-8502, Fukuoka, Japan

    Mario Köppen

  3. MOSAIC Research Group Department of Computing, University of Bradford, BD7 1DP, Bradford, UK

    Keshav Dahal

  4. Centre for Transport & Society Faculty of the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus Coldharbour Lane, BS16 1QY, Bristol, UK

    Yos Sunitiyoso

  5. Professor of Decision Engineering and Head of Decision Engineering Centre Manufacturing Department, Cranfield University, MK43 OAL, Bedford, UK

    Rajkumar Roy

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Qiao, F., Ge, R., Yu, L. (2009). Fuzzy Evaluation of Contra-Flow Evacuation Plans in Texas Medical Center. In: Avineri, E., Köppen, M., Dahal, K., Sunitiyoso, Y., Roy, R. (eds) Applications of Soft Computing. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 52. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88079-0_25

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