TRB Annual Meeting
Business meeting held
1. Over 45 attendees
2. Two speakers presented: Hani Mahmassani, Northwestern University and Michael Robinson, Old Dominion University
3. Through unsolicited submissions and a Call for Papers issued jointly with the Critical Transportation Infrastructure Protection Committees, the Task Force received 38 papers in August 2012 for review by its members. From these, two podium sessions and one poster session were developed. Thes included:
· Session No. 514 - Evolving Practice and Planning in Evacuation Transportation
o 13-5106 Roundabout Performance Evaluation in a Network Evacuation: A Case of Intelligent Decomposed Network Simulations
o 13-3003 No-Notice Evacuation Management: Ramp Closures under Varying Budgets and Demand Scenarios
o 13-4819 Learning From Crisis: Transit Evacuation In Honolulu Following Tsunami Events
o 13-2084 Improving Transportation Resource Coordination for Multi-Modal Evacuation Planning: A Literature Review and Research Agenda
· Session 671 - Research and Applications in Emergency Transportation and Evacuation Planning
o 13-1929 A Bi-level Model for Optimal Shelter Selection in Emergency Evacuation Operations
o 13-0686 An Optimization Model for Dispatching of Heterogeneous Emergency Vehicles
o 13-4174 Optimal Traffic Routing for Large-scale Evacuation in Urban Networks with Various Threat Levels
o 13-3642 How to Evacuate? A Model to Understand the Routing Strategies during Hurricane Evacuation
o 13-2438 A Generalized Minimum Cost Flow Model for Multiple Emergency Flow Routing and Optimal Contra-flow Design
o 13-2339 Calibration and Validation of a Regional-Level Traffic Model for Hurricane Evacuation
o 13-3279 Optimal planning of signal control and uninterrupted flow strategies in a dynamic evacuation network
o 13-2790 Considering individuals with disabilities in a building evacuation: An agent-based simulation study
o 13-3538 Multi-agent simulation of emergency evacuation in passenger transport hub area
o 13-1124 ON TRAFFIC SAFETY HAZARDS IN EVACUATIONS DUE TO CHANGES IN DRIVING BEHAVIOR
o 13-2254 Large-scale Evacuation Network Optimization: A Bi-Level Control Method with Uncertain Arterial Demand
o 13-2935 Understanding the Evacuation Destination Distance and Departure Time Choices: A Joint Modeling Approach
· Session 772 - Emerging Research in Emergency Evacuation
o 13-2227 Sensitivity of Evacuation Performance Estimates to Evacuee Route Choice Behavior
o 13-0285 Empirical Evacuation Response Curve during Hurricane Irene in Cape May County, New Jersey
o 13-4602 Modeling of Bus Transit Driver Availability for Effective Emergency Evacuation in Disaster Relief
o 13-4552 Predictive Qualities of an Evacuation Demand Model-Time-Dependent Sequential Logit
In addition, to the sessions directly sponsored by the Task Force, the membership also worked with other committees to include papers and provide support for other sessions related to the topic. These sessions are listed below.
· Session 603 - Role of Surface Transportation Weather in Highway Operations
· Session 496 - Multimodal Traffic Signal Control
· Session 418 - Recent Research in Mega-Regions
Workshops
The Task Force was also a co-sponsor of several workshops at the 2013 Annual Meeting. These included:
· Session No. 120 - Risk Assessment, Part 1: Decision Support Models and Tools to Evaluate and Address Risk
· Session No. 171 - Risk Assessment, Part 2: Risk Assessment, Part 2: Loss Estimation Models and Tools
· Superstorm Sandy: Transportation Challenges and Research Opportunities in the Aftermath of a Disaster, Sunday Jan 13 2013, 7:00PM- 9:30PM
Midyear Meeting
The mid year meeting of the ANB80T task force was held in August 2013, in conjunction with the 2013 TRB Transportation Hazards and Security Summit, Irvine, California. During the meeting, members were updated on the theTask Force status of the group; dicussions were also held to develop research topics and problem statements within the committee; reports on the coordination with other TRB committees; and finally, looking ahead to what would beneeded to move forward to become a full TRB Standing Committee. The meetting 22 attendees and joined by and six additional members via conference line call–in.