Large-Scale Evacuation introduces the reader to the steps involved in evacuation modeling for towns and cities, from understanding the hazards that can require large-scale evacuations, to understanding how local officials decide to issue evacuation advisories and households decide whether to comply, to transportation simulation and traffic management strategies. The author team has been recognized internationally for their research and consulting experience in the field of evacuations. Collectively, they have 125 years of experience in evacuation, including more than 140 projects for federal and state agencies. The text explains how to model evacuations that use the road transportation network by combining perspectives from social scientists and transportation engineers, fields that have commonly approached evacuation modeling from distinctly different perspectives.
