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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

Southeast United States Hurricane Evacuation Traffic Study

Abstract:

FEMA, USDOT and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers joined together to address problems that surfaced during the Hurricane Floyd evacuation. Specificaly, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina were promised that an initial effort would be accomplished by February 2000 to find out what the public did in response to Floyd, to develop a web based travel demand forecast system that would anticipate evacuation traffic congestion and cross state travel flows, and to coordinate with state DOTs on one way strategies and ITS technologies. Documentation for the study includes an Executive Summary, a Behavioral Analysis technical memorandum, an Evacuation Travel Demand Forecast Model technical memorandum, and a Reverse Lane Standards and ITS Strategies technical memorandum.

Source(s):

Evacuation Traffic Information System (ETIS)

https://coast.noaa.gov/hes/docs/general_info/SEUS_HES.pdf

Date: 2000

Author:

PBS&J

Keywords:


Hurricane/Tropical storm
Evacuation
Traffic modeling

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