A Summary Review on the Importance of Transportation Planning, Preparation and Execution during a Mass Evacuation

The unprecedented mass evacuations in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita highlighted significant problems in the way that privately-owned and public vehicles were used in evacuations. Using the lessons learned from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita as a backdrop, this paper illustrates the importance of transportation asset planning, preparation and execution. Furthermore, some suggestions are offered to improve mass evacuation by means of private and public conveyance. Additionally, Federal, State and local government evacuation plans that have incorporated noteworthy elements into their evacuation plans after 2005 are cited as best practices.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Breckinridge VII, William Lewis
  • Najafi, Fazil Tawab
  • Rouleau USN, Marc
  • Ekberg USN, James D
  • Mamaghanizadeh, Ehsan
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2007-1-21 to 2007-1-25
• Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 17p
• Monograph Title: TRB 86th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers CD-ROM

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Disasters and emergency operations; Emergency management; Emergency training; Evacuation; Hazards and emergency operations; Hurricanes; Management; Transportation planning
• Identifier Terms: Hurricane Katrina, 2005; Hurricane Rita, 2005
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01046045
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 07-0974
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Feb 8 2007 5:33PM