Transit Dependent Evacuation Planning for Kathmandu Valley: A Case Study

  • 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 the metropolitan capital city Kathmandu of Nepal as a hypothetical endangered region, where a large part of population is transit dependent. We discuss the computational results for evacuation time under a broad range of possible scenarios, and derive planning suggestions for practitioners.

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Author:Urmila Pyakurel, Marc Goerigk, Tanka Dhamala, Horst W. Hamacher
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-39444
Series (Serial Number):Report in Wirtschaftsmathematik (WIMA Report) (153)
Document Type:Report
Language of publication:English
Date of Publication (online):2014/10/12
Year of first Publication:2014
Publishing Institution:Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Date of the Publication (Server):2014/12/10
Page Number:22
Faculties / Organisational entities:Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Mathematik
DDC-Cassification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 510 Mathematik
Licence (German):Standard gemäß KLUEDO-Leitlinien vom 28.10.2014