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Improving emergency evacuation preparedness : policy and organizational implications for transportation agencies.
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2013-03-01
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Abstract:When Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ravaged the United States’ Gulf Coast in 2005,
the storms revealed woeful inadequacies in our nation’s emergency preparedness
and response capacities, including – notably – how we plan for and execute largescale
evacuations. Since then, all levels of government have striven to improve the
ways in which the public sector manages the mass movement of people in the face
of a major disaster. Building on previous work conducted by the investigators, this
project explored changes select metropolitan areas have made in planning for and
implementing emergency evacuations in the post-Katrina era, placing particular
emphasis on how transportation and emergency management officials across
multiple levels of government have collaborated in developing and refining regional
mass evacuation plans and procedures.
Given the complications disasters can cause for traffic management and
infrastructure, along with the pivotal role surface transportation plays in support of
emergency evacuations, this study directly addressed the NEUTC’s theme of
strategic management of disruptive change in transportation systems – with a
specific focus on disruptive environments.
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