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July 18, 2007
After the Sept. 11 terror attacks, CSE Professor Shashi Shekhar wondered if there was a more efficient way to move and evacuate people in disaster situations – whether terror, accidental, or weather related. A story in this week’s Minnesota Daily highlights Shekhar’s recent work in evacuation planning and his plans to make his work available to the business sector.
Shekhar’s evacuation planning work, a project known as Capacity Constrained Route Planner (CCRP), balances how many people must be evacuated from an area, how far they need to move, and what kind of incident is forcing the evacuation. The story recalls how Shekhar’s work gained the attention of the state government. In 2005, the Minnesota Department of Transportation, in a partnership with the Department of Homeland Security, called on Shekhar to help devise a metro area evacuation plan.
More recently, Shekhar received a grant earlier this month for further evacuation planning study, awarded by the National Science Foundation. He is also refining the program and seeking to make his evacuation planning program available to companies, such as banks.
For more information about Shekhar’s work, visit ‘Evacuation program gets federal funding.’
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