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		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.
	</longdescription>
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