Emergency evacuation is widely recognized as a critical strategy widely adopted as a last resort to reduce disaster losses and widely studied and implemented across the world. Iran is known as one of the countries with several cities that are exposed to various potential disasters (e.g., earthquake, tsunami, and radioactive material leakage). Bushehr is one of the cities which is exposed to several potential catastrophic events such as leakage of radioactive materials and tsunami. Therefore, it is crucial to comprehensively study transportation network behavior under disaster and eva‎luate different evacuation strategies in the case of catastrophic event. This dissertation attempts to tackle this challenge by incorporating several data sources and modeling Bushehr’s network under different strategies to eva‎luate and score them. To this end, Bushehr’s road network data are collected and aggregated. Next, source-destination demand matrix during each crisis is calculated using destination choice modeling which is based on individuals’ desire to escape the disaster’s source. Then, several policies are studied including:1) Construction-based strategies: such as construction of new roads, widening of current roads, 2) Managing current state by contraflow, optimization of time of evacuation, and 3) Combination of different policies. It should be noted that the choice of link to apply the policy of widening was based on traffic flow and volume to capacity ratio in the event of a crisis, as well as betweenness centrality and closeness centrality. The policy of links widening is studied using the aforementioned indicators, and the scenario with the shortest evacuation time is considered as a candidate scenario for reviewing the contraflow policy. Finally, the scheduling policy was applied to scenarios that have the shortest evacuation time or the ones that lower total cost compared to other construction-based scenarios. The key conclusion of this research is that scheduling and widening links coupled with applying contraflow policy on key links will have the greatest reduction in emergency evacuation time compared to the base condition

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عليرضا صاحبقراني، اميرحسن كرمانشاه