Evacuation

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory is one of the leading institutes in the world on the topic of emergency evacuation. We have conducted considerable research on that topic and translated the work into practical use. Our research has primarily focused on the incidence of evacuation and the dynamics of human behavior in evacuations. This has included evacuations in a variety of loations and in response to both natural and technological events. Specialized studies have included the evacuation of institutionalized populations and evacuation of populations following chemical accidents. Much of this knowledge has been incorporated into OREMS, the Oak Ridge Evacuation Modeling Systems, a state of the art quantitative evacuation time estimation model.