Traffic impacts and dispersal patterns on secondary roadways during regional evacuations

Natural Hazards Review

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-27

  Wolshon, Brian ^a   McArdle, Ben ^b  

^a Louisiana State University   (United States)

^b ABMB Engineers Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency; Emergency services; Evacuation; Highways and roads; Low volume roads; Routing; Traffic management; Traffic routing

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY SERVICE; EVACUATION; HIGHWAYS AND ROADS; LOW VOLUME ROADS; ROUTING; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRAFFIC ROUTING;

HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; HIGHWAY PLANNING; LAW ENFORCEMENT; ROADS AND STREETS; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

EMERGENCY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ACCESSIBILITY; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

LOUISIANA; NEW ORLEANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78751480320     PISSN: 15276988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000026     Document Type: Article

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