The major focus of the research project was to model transit issues associated with hurricane evacuation planning. However, the specific objectives were to use a traffic operations based hurricane evacuation model to determine the expected time to evacuate the entire population; identify the locations of the potential traffic bottlenecks; and assess traffic operation strategies aimed at mitigating the resulting congestion. Since some sectors of the population, specifically the elderly and disabled, may not be able to evacuate by their own means, this project also presents a methodology to determine the scheduling of buses to be used for that purpose. The methodology is presented in the form of case studies that analyze the use of buses during a hurricane evacuation of a small urban and rural area located in the state of North Carolina.
Modeling Transit Issues Unique to Hurricane Evacuations: North Carolina's Small Urban and Rural Areas
2001
86 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation , Police, Fire, & Emergency Services , Transportation & Traffic Planning , Emergency Services & Planning , Road Transportation , Hurricanes , Evacuation , Traffic management , Urban areas , Rural areas , North Carolina , Transportation planning , Traffic control , Traffic congestion , Transit bases , Traffic data analysis , Case studies , Research projects
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