1. Evacuation Route Planning and Large
Event Transportation Software
Andrew MorrowAndrew Morrow
November 10, 2010
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Why Evacuation Routing?
• Sudden, massive traffic creates hazard concerns
• Cities, events, office buildings, and hazardous facilities are federally mandated
to have an evacuation plan on record
• An efficient “what-if?” system is not currently available

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Evacuation Routing Issues
• Catastrophic events require immediate strategic action.
• Planning and real-time evacuation action for highly-
specific locations is not currently possible.
• Dual-purpose solution for both planning and real-time
scenarios would be valuable
This is not a vehicle-based GPS

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Evacuation Routing: Advantages
• Laptop friendly and computationally
efficient
– multiple iterations are possible in
“what-if” analysis
• Dual-purpose solution for both planning
and real-time scenarios
• Scalable to any transportation network
o Vehicular (roads)
o Pedestrian (buildings and sidewalks)
Today
Using CCRP

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Nuclear Power Plants in Minnesota
Twin Cities
Evacuation Routing for HAZMAT

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Evacuation Routing: Handcrafted
Evacuation Time: 268 Minutes

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Evacuation Routing: Using CCRP
- 40% improvement in routing time

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Evacuation Routing: Markets
• Homeland Security
• Event Planning: Civil Engineering
• Emergency Services: Fire, Police,
Ambulance

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Professor Shashi Shekhar
McKnight Distinguished University
University of Minnesota
Research Focus:
Interests include spatial databases, spatial data mining,
geographic and information systems (GIS), and
intelligent transportation systems.
Evacuation Routing: Inventor

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Evacuation Routing: Wrap-Up
• New evacuation routing algorithm targeting
city planners and homeland security.
• Compatible with existing civil engineering
software packages
• Seeking a commercialization partner