Evacuation Route Planning and Large Event Transportation Software

Andrew MorrowAndrew MorrowNovember 10, 2010

The data in this presentation is representative of theThe data in this presentation is representative of the information known at the time of printing (11/11/2010) and should be confirmed by the UMN Technology Marketing Manager.

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Why Evacuation Routing?• Sudden, massive traffic creates hazard concerns• Cities, events, office buildings, and hazardous facilities are federally mandated

to have an evacuation plan on record• An efficient “what-if?” system is not currently available

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Evacuation Routing Issues

• Catastrophic events require immediate strategic action.

• Planning and real-time evacuation action for highly-specific locations is not currently possible.

• Dual-purpose solution for both planning and real-time scenarios would be valuable

This is not a vehicle-based GPS

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Evacuation Routing: Advantages • Laptop friendly and computationally

efficient – multiple iterations are possible in

“what-if” analysis

• Dual-purpose solution for both planning and real-time scenarios

• Scalable to any transportation networko Vehicular (roads)o Pedestrian (buildings and sidewalks)

Today

Using CCRP

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Nuclear Power Plants in Minnesota

Twin Cities

Evacuation Routing for HAZMAT

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Evacuation Routing: Handcrafted

Evacuation Time: 268 Minutes

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Evacuation Routing: Using CCRP

- 40% improvement in routing time

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Evacuation Routing: Markets

• Homeland Security

• Event Planning: Civil Engineering

• Emergency Services: Fire, Police, Ambulance

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Professor Shashi ShekharMcKnight Distinguished UniversityUniversity of Minnesota

Research Focus:Interests include spatial databases, spatial data mining, geographic and information systems (GIS), and intelligent transportation systems.

Evacuation Routing: Inventor

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Evacuation Routing: Wrap-Up

• New evacuation routing algorithm targeting city planners and homeland security.

• Compatible with existing civil engineering software packages

• Seeking a commercialization partner