Research Article

A Case Study on the Impacts of Connected Vehicle Technology on No-Notice Evacuation Clearance Time

Table 1

Review of previous strategies to reduce evacuation time.

StrategiesChallengesAuthors

Contraflow or lane reversalUnplanned contraflow orders, estimation of the number of vehicles, and how vehicles would enter contraflow lanesPel et al., 2008 [5], Final Report-NJIT, 2007 [6], Hamza-Lup et al., 2004 [7], Tuydes and Zilliaskopoulos, 2004 [8], Litman, 2006 [9], Buckley and Jernigan, 2001 [10], Kim et al., 2008 [11], Wolshon and Lambert, 2004 [12]

Dynamic routingLevel of instructions, roadway network structure, available traffic information, and traveler compliancePel et al. 2010 [13], Urbanik II 2000 [14], Stepanov and Smith, 2009 [15], Chen and Zhan, 2008 [16], Liu et al., 2008 [17]

Priority signal controlPriority category and number of destinationsChiu and Zheng, 2007 [18], Kimms and Maassen, 2012 [19], Yi et al., 2012 [20]

Intersection crossing eliminationMerging and postdisaster evacuationArdekani and Hobeika, 1988 [21], Cova and Johnson, 2003 [22], Kalafats and Peeta, 2009 [23], Chang and Edara [4], Jahangiri et al., 2014 [24]

Network/route optimizationDriver behavior during evacuation and calibrationLiu et al., 2006 [25], Sbayti and Mahmassani, 2006 [26], Chiu et al., 2007 [27], Hamza-Lup et al., 2007 [28], Xie and Turnquist, 2009 [29], Xie et al., 2010 [30], Liu et al. [31], Murray-Tuite and Wolshon [32], Handford and Rogers [33], Ni [34]

Car following techniquesUnrealistic driver behavior/crash avoidanceHamdar and Mahmassani [35]