Hurricane evacuation has long been a difficult problem perplexing local government.
Hurricane Irma in 2017 created the most extensive scale of evacuation in Florida's history …

Hurricane evacuation modeling is challenging due to a scarcity of evacuation data and the
complexity of human decision-making and travel behavior. We build a system for rapidly …

Traffic evacuation plays a critical role in saving lives in devastating disasters such as
hurricanes, wildfires, floods, etc. An ability to evaluate evacuation plans in advance for these …

During an impending hurricane, it's critical that public officials fully understand evacuation
traffic characteristics when deciding upon an emergency management strategy. This case …

Among the many gaps in the current state of mass evacuation planning and analysis
practice has been a lack of the field-based study of traffic flows under actual evacuation …

Historically, evacuation models have relied on values of road capacity that are estimated
based on Highway Capacity Manual methods or those observed during routine non …

The State of Florida is significantly vulnerable to catastrophic hurricanes that cause
widespread infrastructural damage and claim lives annually. In 2017, Hurricane Irma, a …

Understanding evacuation response behavior is critical for public officials in deciding when
to issue emergency evacuation orders for an impending hurricane. Such behavior is …

This paper focuses on traffic modeling of large-scale hurricane evacuation networks.
Several research efforts to date have addressed the evacuation problem from a local …

An integrated storm surge modeling and traffic analysis were conducted in this study to
assess the effectiveness of hurricane evacuations through a case study of Hurricane Irma …