TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Evacuation route planning for alternative fuel vehicles
JO  - Transportation research part C: emerging technologies
A1  - Purba, Denissa Sari Darmawi
A1  - Kontou, Eleftheria
A1  - Vogiatzis, Chrysafis
SP  - e103837
EP  - e103837
VL  - 143
IS  - 
N2  - As the number of adopted alternative fuel vehicles increases, it is crucial for communities (especially those that are susceptible to hazards) to make evacuation plans that account for such vehicles refueling needs. During emergencies that require preemptive evacuation planning, travelers using alternative fuel vehicles are vulnerable when evacuation routes do not provide access to refueling stations on their way to shelters. In this paper, we formulate and solve a novel seamless evacuation route plan problem, by designing |K| spanning trees with side constraints that capture the refueling needs of each k∈K vehicle fuel type on their way to reach a shelter. We develop a branch-and-price matheuristic algorithm based on column generation to solve the evacuation route planning problem. We apply the proposed framework to the Sioux Falls transportation network with existing infrastructure deployment and present numerical experiments. Specifically, we discuss the optimal system evacuation travel and refueling times under scenarios of various alternative fuel vehicle driving ranges. Our findings show that the characteristics of each vehicle fuel type, like driving range and the refueling infrastructure topology, play a pivotal role in determining evacuation route plans. This means that an evacuation route could prove unique to a single vehicle fuel type, while being infeasible to others. Finally, we observe that the driving range constraints could force evacuee vehicles to detour to meet their refueling needs before reaching safety and increase the total evacuation time by 7.32 % in one of evaluated scenarios.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0968-090X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2022.103837
ID  - ref1
ER  -