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Emergency Evacuation and System Vulnerabilities 2013

Accession Number:

01505854

Record Type:

Monograph

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Abstract:

This issue contains 9 papers concerned with emergency evacuation and system vulnerabilities. Specific topics addressed include: the empirical evacuation response curve during Hurricane Irene in Cape May County, New Jersey; transportation resource coordination for multimodal evacuation planning; sensitivity of evacuation performance estimates to evacuee route choice behavior; no-notice evacuation management; and a time-dependent sequential logit evacuation demand model. Additional topics discussed include: bus transit driver availability for emergency evacuation; transit evacuation in Honolulu, Hawaii, after tsunami warnings; roundabout performance evaluation in a network evacuation; and an assessment of transportation system vulnerabilities using national household travel survey data.

Language:

English

Pagination:

88p

Publication Date:

2013

Serial:

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Issue Number: 2376
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

9780309286954

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Security and Emergencies; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 11:30AM

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