A review of traffic models for wildland-urban interface wildfire evacuation
(2018) In LUTVDG/TVBB VBRM01 20171Division of Fire Safety Engineering
- Abstract
- Recent years have seen an increased prevalence of wildfires, some of which has spread into the wildland-urban interface and lead to large-scale evacuations. Large-scale evacuations gives rise to both logistical and traffic related issues. To aid in the planning and execution of such evacuations reliable modelling tools to simulate evacuation traffic are needed. Today no traffic model exists which is dedicated only to simulate wildfire evacuation in the wildland/urban interface. The aim of this thesis is to identify benchmark characteristics needed in such a model and review 12 existing models, both traffic models and evacuation models, and their potential usefulness in WUI wildfire scenarios. The thesis concludes that some models can be... (More)
- Recent years have seen an increased prevalence of wildfires, some of which has spread into the wildland-urban interface and lead to large-scale evacuations. Large-scale evacuations gives rise to both logistical and traffic related issues. To aid in the planning and execution of such evacuations reliable modelling tools to simulate evacuation traffic are needed. Today no traffic model exists which is dedicated only to simulate wildfire evacuation in the wildland/urban interface. The aim of this thesis is to identify benchmark characteristics needed in such a model and review 12 existing models, both traffic models and evacuation models, and their potential usefulness in WUI wildfire scenarios. The thesis concludes that some models can be tuned to represent aspects of a WUI fire evacuation and that future research should focus on integrating traffic modelling with modelling of fire/smoke spread and pedestrian movement. (Less)
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- author
- Bergstedt, Albin LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- VBRM01 20171
- year
- 2018
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Wildfire, wildfire evacuation, WUI evacuation, evacuation modelling, evacuation behavior, wildland/urban interface, large-scale evacuation
- publication/series
- LUTVDG/TVBB
- report number
- 5555
- other publication id
- LUTVDG/TVBB—5555--SE
- language
- English
- id
- 8934008
- date added to LUP
- 2018-01-30 12:15:47
- date last changed
- 2018-01-30 12:15:47
@misc{8934008, abstract = {{Recent years have seen an increased prevalence of wildfires, some of which has spread into the wildland-urban interface and lead to large-scale evacuations. Large-scale evacuations gives rise to both logistical and traffic related issues. To aid in the planning and execution of such evacuations reliable modelling tools to simulate evacuation traffic are needed. Today no traffic model exists which is dedicated only to simulate wildfire evacuation in the wildland/urban interface. The aim of this thesis is to identify benchmark characteristics needed in such a model and review 12 existing models, both traffic models and evacuation models, and their potential usefulness in WUI wildfire scenarios. The thesis concludes that some models can be tuned to represent aspects of a WUI fire evacuation and that future research should focus on integrating traffic modelling with modelling of fire/smoke spread and pedestrian movement.}}, author = {{Bergstedt, Albin}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, series = {{LUTVDG/TVBB}}, title = {{A review of traffic models for wildland-urban interface wildfire evacuation}}, year = {{2018}}, }