evacpath: Least-Cost Pedestrian Evacuation Modeling

Tools for road-constrained, least-cost pedestrian evacuation modeling. The package provides reusable functions for preparing hazard zones, generating road-based evacuation origin points, identifying escape/safety points, creating slope-based conductance surfaces, calculating least-cost distance to safety, and converting distance outputs into evacuation-time polygons. It is designed to support workflows like tsunami evacuation modeling while remaining adaptable to other regions and hazards. Tsunami-specific helpers support separate land-only hazard zones, water-combined escape zones, road-aware escape boundaries, and study-area inset cropping for quality assurance and quality control. Methods build on Cordero et al. (2025) <doi:10.1007/s44367-025-00018-y>, Lewis (2021) <doi:10.1007/s10816-021-09522-w>, and Joseph Lewis's 'leastcostpath' package (2023) <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=leastcostpath>.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1)
Imports: terra, leastcostpath, utils
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), devtools, fields
Published: 2026-05-28
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.evacpath (may not be active yet)
Author: Elvin Cordero [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Elvin Cordero <elvin.cordero1 at upr.edu>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: evacpath results

Documentation:

Reference manual: evacpath.html , evacpath.pdf
Vignettes: Using evacpath in a new region (source, R code)
Evacuation workflow: function-by-function diagnostics (source, R code)

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Package source: evacpath_0.1.0.tar.gz
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