THE CONFIGURATION OF ROAD CONVOYS: A SIMULATION STUDY

Year
1977
Author(s)
R.J. Gallagher - Sandia Laboratories
K.G. Stimmell - Sandia Laboratories
N.R. Wagner - Sandia Laboratories
Abstract
An important element in the evaluation of transportation safeguards systems is the analysis of convoy configurations. The analysis should examine the influence of vehicle deployment and tactics, communications strategies, vulnerabilities, and adversary characteristics on survivability and emergency signal probability. A computerized model, SOURCE, has been developed which simulates the initial interaction between a convoy and an adversary force. This paper briefly describes the model and presents example results for several vehicle convoy configurations.