Development of a time-dependent hurricane evacuation model for the New Orleans area : [technical summary].
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2013-01-01
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Abstract:When hurricanes threaten coastal cities, the most eff ective strategy to mitigate mortality is to evacuate the population
at risk. However, public offi cials face several transportation challenges when managing evacuations from a large city
like New Orleans. As a result, they seek the help of transportation offi cials to implement a safe and effi cient evacuation.
In response, transportation offi cials evaluate several alternative evacuation policies—for example, phased evacuation,
initiation of contrafl ow, and evacuation of carless people using transit. The evaluation of alternative evacuation policies
requires statistical evacuation behavioral models that are responsive to various factors that infl uence evacuation
behavior. The current post-event revealed preference data collection methodology is incapable of collecting detailed
time-dependent behavioral data that is required for the development of statistical behavior models capable of evaluating
alternative evacuation policies.
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