Y3R1- Analysis of Freight Movement Within Regional Evacuations

Natural disasters are one of the most common emergency events in the United States. Florida is a state that frequently suffers from such events, specifically hurricanes. As the number of major hurricanes increases, the need to ensure resilient freight movement in the wake of a disaster is ever present. Unfortunately, as a major storm approaches, evacuating traffic represents a significant disruption to freight logistics. At a moment when cargo shipments are vital to prepare for and recover from a regional national disaster, freight transportation operates at a diminished capacity. The high demand for essential goods, compounded by a hindered ability to move these goods, constitutes a significant vulnerability on a national level. This research seeks to explore freight movements before, during, and after an emergency evacuation in support of identifying lessons learned and best-practices for future planning. The goal of this research is to build upon the prior knowledge and expand the scientific understanding of freight movements on the surface transportation network before, during, and immediately following a regional evacuation and major hurricane. The research goal will be achieved by investigating the movement of goods along Florida’s trucking routes in the weeks leading up to and following the September 10, 2017 landfall of Hurricane Irma. The 2017 evacuation from Hurricane Irma has been referred to as the largest evacuation in the history of the United States. Approximately 6.5 million Floridians were placed under either mandatory or voluntary evacuation orders (Marshall, 2017). This event undoubtedly had a significant impact on the freight movements across the state. The proposed research will take an empirical approach to quantitatively describe the movement of freight during this disrupted period to investigate what happened and what can be learned for future events

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $100000
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747120

• Sponsor Organizations:

  United States Department of Transportation - FHWA - LTAP

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC    20590

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Freight Mobility Research Institute

  Florida Atlantic University
  Boca Raton, FL  United States  33431
• Project Managers:

  Stearns, Amy

• Performing Organizations:

  Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton

  Boca Raton, FL  United States  33431
• Principal Investigators:

  Kaisar, Evangelos

  Dhanak, Manhar

  Parr, Scott

• Start Date: 20180212
• Expected Completion Date: 20190322
• Actual Completion Date: 20210727
• USDOT Program: Advanced Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Empirical methods; Evacuation; Freight traffic; Hurricanes; Logistics; Regional transportation; Service disruption
• Geographic Terms: Florida
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01777880
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Freight Mobility Research Institute
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747120
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jul 27 2021 9:40AM