Design and implementation of an Emergency Traffic Evacuation Management Platform for urban areas based on Eclipse RCP

An Emergency Traffic Evacuation Management Platform is developed in this paper to support evacuation planning and decision making for city managers. The platform is based on Eclipse RCP, a programming framework kept updating by the Eclipse RCP open source project. Architecture design and implementation of the platform are mainly discussed. Modularization is the basic idea when building the platform. At the last of the paper, we suppose that a sudden disaster has happened somewhere in Hangzhou and the platform is used to manage the evacuation planning. Experiments show that evacuation time increases linearly with the amount of evacuation demand in a certain range, and we draw the conclusion that balanced improvements on the whole road network should be made instead of only on the “bottlenecks”.