Skip to main content

LUP Student Papers

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

A review of traffic models for wildland-urban interface wildfire evacuation

Bergstedt, Albin LU (2018) In LUTVDG/TVBB VBRM01 20171
Division 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)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
Bergstedt, Albin LU
supervisor
organization
course
VBRM01 20171
year
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}},
}