TY - GEN
T1 - Sensitivity analysis of driver behavior under emergency conditions
AU - Prionisti, Elena
AU - Antoniou, Constantinos
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Under emergency situations, citizens are often forced to evacuate an inhabited area for their own safety. During this process, drivers' behavior becomes a very important factor determining vehicle movements in the affected area. In this research, the impact of driver aggressiveness on traffic flow properties related to evacuation, such as travel time to the safe zones, is modeled through microscopic simulation and the use of detailed driver behavior models. A sensitivity analysis examining the impact of each individual model on the network is first performed, followed by an analysis of the interaction of the most influential models. The findings of this research can be useful in developing realistic evacuation strategies and plans, in which the expected impact of the drivers' behavior due to their stress is explicitly taken into consideration.
AB - Under emergency situations, citizens are often forced to evacuate an inhabited area for their own safety. During this process, drivers' behavior becomes a very important factor determining vehicle movements in the affected area. In this research, the impact of driver aggressiveness on traffic flow properties related to evacuation, such as travel time to the safe zones, is modeled through microscopic simulation and the use of detailed driver behavior models. A sensitivity analysis examining the impact of each individual model on the network is first performed, followed by an analysis of the interaction of the most influential models. The findings of this research can be useful in developing realistic evacuation strategies and plans, in which the expected impact of the drivers' behavior due to their stress is explicitly taken into consideration.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84871206223&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ITSC.2012.6338655
DO - 10.1109/ITSC.2012.6338655
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84871206223
SN - 9781467330640
T3 - IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC
SP - 1263
EP - 1268
BT - 2012 15th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, ITSC 2012
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2012 15th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, ITSC 2012
Y2 - 16 September 2012 through 19 September 2012
ER -