Abstract: Over the past 20 years the coastal population of the southeastern United States that is vulnerable to hurricanes has increased significantly. Much of the recent planning and construction of infrastructure in these regions ...

Abstract: Recently, there has been interest in many suburban communities around the United States to revive traditional styles of commercial and residential land development. These neotraditional developments are characterized by a ...

Abstract: One of the key elements in the evolution of traffic flow theory has been the development of the car following theory. Applications of this research can be seen in traffic simulation models, such as CORSIM, that use car ...

Abstract: Reversible roadways have been used throughout the world to mitigate the effects of congestion and optimize roadway performance for more than 70 years. They have been applied on a variety of roadway types using many different ...

Abstract: Mass evacuations of urbanized areas can be expected to generate traffic demand significantly in excess of routine daily travel conditions. Depending on the nature of the hazard and the population characteristics within the ...

Abstract: This project was motivated by recent research that has advocated the need for a better understanding of and planning for evacuations of residential subdivisions under threat from wildfires. Prior work has suggested that ...

Abstract: One of the primary difficulties in completing evaluations of real-time adaptive traffic signal systems has been the lack of effective modeling tools to perform controlled and repeatable analytical experiments. Recently, a ...

Abstract: Between the fall of 2004 and spring of 2005, a plan was developed to facilitate the evacuation of southeast Louisiana, including the City of New Orleans, when under the threat of a hurricane. The plan was created by the ...