Using Highways During Evacuation Operations for Events with Advance Notice

Routes to Effective Evacuation Planning Primer Series

Produced in collaboration with the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS JPO)
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Tools for Effective Highway Evacuation Operations

Good Practice: Use the Tools

  • Traveler information—511
  • Loudspeakers
  • Handouts
  • REVERSE 911®
  • Roadside information
  • VMS
  • Media
  • PA and E-mail systems
  • Telephone
  • Call centers
  • Traffic control tools
  • TIM capabilities and assets
  • Traffic counting devices
  • Traffic signals and signal timing and pre-emption plans
  • Ramp meters and gates
  • Traffic signs
  • Pavement markers
  • HOV and reversible lanes
  • TMCs
  • Evacuation models, including OREMS, MASSEVAC, HURREVAC, Evacuation Travel Demand Forecasting System
  • Plume modeling
  • Clarus

There are many tools available to support highway evacuations, and they fall into three broad categories: communications; traffic control; and evacuation, weather, and assessment monitoring and prediction as described in the following sections.
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