Communication's role and technology preferences during hurricane evacuations

Natural Hazards Review

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 182-190

  Taaffe, Kevin ^a   Garrett, Sandra ^a   Huang, Yuan Han ^a   Nkwocha, Innocent ^b  

^a AMRL   (United States)

^b SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Dynamic decision making; Hurricane evacuation behavior; Hurricane Hugo; Survey

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY EVACUATION; HURRICANE EVACUATION; HURRICANE EVACUATION BEHAVIORS; SOUTH CAROLINA; TIMING DECISIONS; WEATHER INFORMATION; WEATHER PATTERNS;

COMMUNICATION; COORDINATION REACTIONS; HURRICANES; SURVEYING;

SURVEYS;

COMMUNICATION NETWORK; DECISION MAKING; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; HURRICANE HUGO 1989; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY;

CHARLESTON; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880391180     PISSN: 15276988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000104     Document Type: Conference Paper

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