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A State-Of-The-Practice Review Of Hurricane Evacuation Plans And Policies, Elba Alicia Urbina
A State-Of-The-Practice Review Of Hurricane Evacuation Plans And Policies, Elba Alicia Urbina
LSU Master's Theses
The events of recent hurricane seasons have made evacuation one of the leading emergency management issues. In 1998 and 1999, Hurricanes Georges and Floyd precipitated the two largest evacuations in U.S. history and perhaps, its two largest traffic jams. In response to the problems experienced during these events, many State Department’s of Transportation (DOT) have begun to take a more active role in the planning, management, and operation of hurricane evacuations. Since the involvement of transportation professionals in the evacuation field has been a fairly recent development; many of the newest practices and policies have only been used once, if …
Development Of Trip Generation Models Of Hurricane Evacuation, Bing Mei
Development Of Trip Generation Models Of Hurricane Evacuation, Bing Mei
LSU Master's Theses
In this study, alternative trip generation models for hurricane evacuation movement were developed using logistic regression and neural networks. The southwest Louisiana post-Andrew survey data were used for model estimation, validation, and comparison. The performance of the alternative models was compared with each other as well as against that of an existing evacuation model, the PBS&J model, developed for the same area. The results showed that the models developed in this study displayed similar performance. It was also found that the models developed in this study performed better than the existing PBS&J model in predicting household evacuation trip generation for …