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Population Evacuations

Description: Emergency evacuation is one of the most important protective action alternatives when facing a natural or a man-made disaster. The planning and implementation of a large-scale emergency evacuation is a difficult and complex problem that requires the interactions of many agencies and involves a large amount of information. This article focuses on the latter and discusses the models that are normally used in the planning phase to evaluate this type of protective action alternatives and the inform… more
Date: January 1, 2008
Creator: Franzese, Oscar
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Real-Time Traffic Information for Emergency Evacuation Operations: Phase A Final Report

Description: There are many instances in which it is possible to plan ahead for an emergency evacuation (e.g., an explosion at a chemical processing facility). For those cases, if an accident (or an attack) were to happen, then the best evacuation plan for the prevailing network and weather conditions would be deployed. In other cases (e.g., the derailment of a train transporting hazardous materials), there may not be any previously developed plan to be implemented and decisions must be made ad-hoc on how t… more
Date: May 1, 2010
Creator: Franzese, Oscar; Zhang, Li; Mahmoud, Anas M.; Lascurain, Mary Beth & Wen, Yi
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Modeling and predicting evacuation flows during hurricane Irma

Description: This article proposes a method to model evacuation flows and reveal the patterns of evacuation flows at different spatial scales. First, the authors present a method to characterize evacuation flows at different geographic scales: the state level, considering evacuation flows across southern states affected by Irma; the urban/rural area level, and the county level. Then they demonstrate results on the predictability of evacuation flows in the most affected state, Florida, by using the following… more
Date: September 29, 2020
Creator: Hong, Lingzi & Frias-Martinez, Vanessa
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RAPID: Collaborative Research: Examining Household Movements and Evacuation Decision-Making in a Compounding Risk Event

Description: Data management plan for the grant "RAPID: Collaborative Research: Examining Household Movements and Evacuation Decision-Making in a Compounding Risk Event." The purpose of this Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) collaborative project is to examine household protective action decisions during two simultaneous events: Hurricane Ida and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Time-sensitive data gathered through online, phone, and mail surveys and supplemented with GPS/mobile phone data will be us… more
Date: 2022-01-01/2022-12-31
Creator: Siebeneck, Laura K.
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Partner: UNT College of Health and Public Service
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[News Script: Skyline]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: March 13, 1970, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Explosion]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about false bomb threats being made.
Date: March 1, 1971, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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The Willingness of Older Adults to Evacuate in the Event of a Disaster

Description: The issue of rising number of disasters, the overwhelming increase in number of older adults, and historically flawed evacuations presents real challenges. Disasters can strike anywhere, any time, and have devastating consequences. Since 1900, the number of Americans 65 and older has increased 12 times (from 3.1 million to 36.3 million). During the next two decades, the number of American baby boomers, now aged 45-64, who turn 65, will increase by 40%. As evidenced by recent disasters, the impe… more
Date: May 2009
Creator: Gray-Graves, Amy Michael
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[News Script: Bombings]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: March 14, 1970, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Bubbling craters]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about bubbling craters causing an evacuation in Williamsburg, Michigan.
Date: April 19, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Evacuation]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: August 1993
Duration: 36 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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