Wisconsin’s Approach to Emergency Evacuation Planning and Lessons Learned
A study commissioned by Wisconsin’s Governor post-Hurricane Katrina identified the need to enhance evacuation planning and documentation for the 12 most populated cities in Wisconsin. This paper highlights the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s (WisDOT) role in enhancing evacuation planning documentation for key cities throughout the state and describes lessons learned in preparing these documents. Recognizing the almost infinite number of variables associated with an emergency requiring evacuation, WisDOT emphasized “emergency mobility” approach for the evacuation planning efforts. Therefore, the resulting Evacuation Route and Traffic Control Guidance component of Wisconsin’s emergency evacuation plans serves as an informational resource that focuses on providing incident commanders and responders guidance in planning for and implementing evacuation at almost any location within the jurisdiction.
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Authors:
- Cyra, Steven J
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Conference:
- ITS America 20th Annual Meeting & Exposition
- Location: Houston TX, United States
- Date: 2010-5-3 to 2010-5-5
- Publication Date: 2010
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: CD-ROM
- Pagination: 4p
- Monograph Title: ITS America 20th Annual Meeting & Exposition
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Disaster preparedness; Disasters and emergency operations; Emergency transportation; Evacuation; Guidelines; Hazards and emergency operations; Highway traffic control; Lessons learned; Mobility; Traffic control centers; Transportation planning
- Identifier Terms: Hurricane Katrina, 2005
- Geographic Terms: Wisconsin
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01342760
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jun 23 2011 9:07AM