Recommended by Evtim PeytchevAtlantic hurricanes and severe tropical storms are a serious threat for the communities in the Gulf of Mexico region. Such storms are violent and destructive. In response to these dangers, coastal evacuation may be ordered. This paper describes the development of a simulation model to analyze the movement of vehicles through I-65, a major US Interstate highway that runs north off the coastal City of Mobile, Alabama, towards the State of Tennessee, during a massive evacuation originated by a disastrous event such a hurricane. The constructed simulation platform consists of a primary and two secondary models. The primary model is based on the entry of vehicles from the 20 on-ramps to I-65. The two secondary models assist the primary model with related traffic events such as car breakdowns and accidents, traffic control measures, interarrival signaling, and unforeseen emergency incidents, among others. Statistical testing was performed on the data generated by the simulation model to indentify variation in relevant traffic variables affecting the timely flow of vehicles travelling north. The performed statistical analysis focused on the closing of alternative on-ramps throughout the Interstate.
mattered most on the Island can best be seen when Macquarrie accompanied Walter Dinsdale to the Salvation Army Citadel. After the service, when the tambourines were passed about, he did just the right thing. "I happened to have what I thought was the optimum denomination, a $2 bill. Less might have looked a bit tight; more might have seemed a bit showy in 1956. To have none at all would have been the worst possible situation in which to find oneself." These skills served him well with his constituents, but they count for less on the Hill. He had little talent for getting along with the party brass. He quarrelled with John Diefenbaker, supported Brian Mulroney in 1976 and was briefly titular head of the draft Peter Lougheed movement. He got it right with Robert Stanfield, whom he sincerely and rightly admires, and that brought him to the zenith of his career as foreign affairs critic. He shrewdly developed an interest in the Caribbean, and served his country well on many foreign trips, and even more embassy receptions. The honorary member for Cairo Centre, who thought Yasser Arafat a "much maligned man who in a sea of difficulties has sought to pilot his people," did what he could to promote understanding of the Palestinian cause in Ottawa. During his career Macquarrie was on the periphery of events and, save for a few minor incidents, there are few important insights to be gleaned from his recollections. Truly decent people however are rare, though they are more common in politics than the general public acknowledges. Heath Macquarrie never lost sight of the primary reason why the voters kept returning him. He always kept in touch with his constituents and served them well. When, please God, the current Senate is finally abolished, Heath Macquarrie's service in it will be counted among its happier moments.
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