The route optimization problem for road networks was applied to pedestrian flow.Evacuation path networks with nodes and arcs considering the traffic capacities of facilities were built in metro hubs,and a path impedan...The route optimization problem for road networks was applied to pedestrian flow.Evacuation path networks with nodes and arcs considering the traffic capacities of facilities were built in metro hubs,and a path impedance function for metro hubs which used the relationships among circulation speed,density and flow rate for pedestrians was defined.Then,a route optimization model which minimizes the movement time of the last evacuee was constructed to optimize evacuation performance.Solutions to the proposed mathematical model were obtained through an iterative optimization process.The route optimization model was applied to Xidan Station of Beijing Metro Line 4 based on the actual situations,and the calculation results of the model were tested using buildingExodus microscopic evacuation simulation software.The simulation result shows that the proposed model shortens the evacuation time by 16.05%,3.15% and 2.78% compared with all or none method,equally split method and Logit model,respectively.Furthermore,when the population gets larger,evacuation efficiency in the proposed model has a greater advantage.展开更多
A routing tree for a set of tasks is a decision tree which assigns the tasks to their destinationsaccording to the features of the tasks. A weighted routing tree is one with costs attached to each linkof the tree. Lin...A routing tree for a set of tasks is a decision tree which assigns the tasks to their destinationsaccording to the features of the tasks. A weighted routing tree is one with costs attached to each linkof the tree. Links of the same feature have the same cost. It is proved that the problem of finding ?routing tree of the minimum cost for a given set of tasks of two features is NP-complete.展开更多
基金Project(51078086)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘The route optimization problem for road networks was applied to pedestrian flow.Evacuation path networks with nodes and arcs considering the traffic capacities of facilities were built in metro hubs,and a path impedance function for metro hubs which used the relationships among circulation speed,density and flow rate for pedestrians was defined.Then,a route optimization model which minimizes the movement time of the last evacuee was constructed to optimize evacuation performance.Solutions to the proposed mathematical model were obtained through an iterative optimization process.The route optimization model was applied to Xidan Station of Beijing Metro Line 4 based on the actual situations,and the calculation results of the model were tested using buildingExodus microscopic evacuation simulation software.The simulation result shows that the proposed model shortens the evacuation time by 16.05%,3.15% and 2.78% compared with all or none method,equally split method and Logit model,respectively.Furthermore,when the population gets larger,evacuation efficiency in the proposed model has a greater advantage.
基金This research was supported in part by the NSF grants DCB-8501226 and DCR-8696135. Part of this work was done while the first author was at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California, and while the second author was at the Departm
文摘A routing tree for a set of tasks is a decision tree which assigns the tasks to their destinationsaccording to the features of the tasks. A weighted routing tree is one with costs attached to each linkof the tree. Links of the same feature have the same cost. It is proved that the problem of finding ?routing tree of the minimum cost for a given set of tasks of two features is NP-complete.