Modeling Hurricane Evacuation Traffic: Testing the Gravity and Intervening Opportunity Models as Models of Destination Choice in Hurricane Evacuation [Technical Summary]

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• Creators:
  Wilmot, Chester G.
• Corporate Creators:
  Louisiana Transportation Research Center
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Hurricanes
  • Evacuation
  • Traffic models
  • Tests
  • Gravity models
  • Opportunity models
  • Alternatives analysis
  • Data analysis
  • Intervening Opportunity Models
• Publication/ Report Number:
  LTRC technical summary report 407 ; LTRC Project. No. 03-1SS ; State Project No. 736-99-1116
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Louisiana
• Corporate Publisher:
  Louisiana Transportation Research Center
• Abstract:
  The objectives of this study are to test whether the Gravity and Intervening Opportunity Models (IOM) can successfully reproduce aggregate evacuation destination choice observed in evacuation behavior from Hurricane Floyd, compare the performance of the Gravity and Intervening Opportunity Models in modeling evacuation destination choice, and test the transferability of the Gravity Model by applying the model estimated from the Floyd data to the data from Hurricane Andrew.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/22350/dot_22350_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 23.80 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ec6ba7a470e99b124a5a3360da3a48a848989bd55cc2b54f9b4ce9a8e3aee5352aa60ab68337f287df09231b40110603392ecf1ff979cd038e709487d5497ee8