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Record W4413120139 · doi:10.1016/j.trip.2025.101556

Pre-disaster evacuation transport network design under uncertain demand and connectivity reliability: a novel bi-level programming model

2025· article· en· W4413120139 on OpenAlexaff
Junxiang Xu, Divya Jayakumar Nair, S. Travis Waller

Bibliographic record

VenueTransportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicEvacuation and Crowd Dynamics
Canadian institutionsTransport Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsReliability (semiconductor)Computer scienceNetwork planning and designReliability engineeringOperations researchComputer networkEngineering

Abstract

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Evacuation transport network design plays a critical role in the efficiency of emergency response. This research proposes a novel bi-level nonlinear programming model for the pre-flood evacuation transport network design. The model considers both uncertainties of demand and network connectivity reliability. An upper-level model is developed with the minimum total evacuation time and maximum network connectivity reliability, while the lower-level model is a traffic assignment model that describes people’s evacuation route choice behavior. For the uncertain network connectivity reliability, an approach to quantify it based on percolation theory is proposed. For the uncertain demand, an approach to transform it into a solvable form based on Robust Optimization (RO) is proposed. Furthermore, the lower-level model introduces the regret-risk utility function as its objective function and proves its applicability. An equilibrium condition is proposed to improve the Logit model based on the regret-risk utility function. For the solution of this model, an Improved Genetic Algorithm combined with Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II(IGA-NSGA-II) is designed. Then, the Nguyen-Dupuis network is used to demonstrate that the approach developed in this paper can be used to solve the bi-level nonlinear programming model and to obtain a satisfactory design solution. Further, a parameter sensitivity analysis is shown to study the impact of the risk aversion parameter and regret aversion parameter in the regret-risk utility function. Finally, the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia is used as a case study, and the research output will help government authorities to plan and design a pre-flood evacuation transport network, especially to answer the questions of “Where to build potential roads?”, “How much budget is needed?”, “How long does it take to evacuate?”, and “How reliable is the network connectivity?”.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.028

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.077
GPT teacher head0.379
Teacher spread0.302 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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