Enhancing Capacity for Emergency Evacuation through Resource Matching and Coordinated Volunteerism

Hess, Daniel Baldwin; Conley, Brian W; Farrell, Christina M.

doi:10.14257/ijt.2014.2.3.03

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“…From the management aspect, prepopulation of a list of registered vehicles from shared-mobility companies is required to support emergency evacuations or make them available on-demand basis. This is similar to volunteer evacuation corps proposed in [42], but with payments and benefits that are meant for their future profits, as the implementation of strategies to encourage the appearance of drivers under emergency situations. To make this available, a questionnaire designed based on data acquired by on-vehicle interviews to be filled in by car-owners when they register with shared-mobility platforms.…”

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Use of Shared-Mobility Services to Accomplish Emergency Evacuation in Urban Areas via Reduction in Intermediate Trips—Case Study in Xi’an, China

Liu

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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Under no-notice evacuation scenarios with limited time horizons, the effectiveness of evacuation can be negatively impacted by intermediate trips that are made by family members and the identification of vulnerable populations. The emergence of shared-mobility companies, such as Uber and DiDi, can be considered as a potential means to address above-mentioned concerns. The proposed study explores the utility of shared-mobility services under emergency-evacuation scenarios and makes recommendations to relevant bodies that are based on the obtained and they are discussed herein. The study investigates attitudes of the public, experts, and drivers towards the use of shared-mobility resources during emergency evacuations based on a stated preference survey. Results of questionnaires, driver interviews, and face-to-face expert interviews have been analyzed to validate the feasibility and identify potential problems of leveraging shared-mobility services during evacuation response, especially in metropolitan areas wherein such services are already ubiquitous. Numerical simulations have been performed to quantify potential improvements in the total trip distance and number of evacuees after incorporating the use of shared mobility into emergency-response operations. However, despite the observed improvement in emergency efficiency, certain realistic roadblocks must be overcome. Realization of the proposed objective heavily depends on actionable policy recommendations, provided herein as a reference for the government, emergency management agencies, and shared-mobility companies.

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confidence: 93%