Improving Public Safety through Spatial Synthesis, Mapping, Modeling, and Performance Analysis of Emergency Evacuation Routes in California Localities

The project will help centralize and assess evacuation routes, and assess their capacity for evacuation. It will help inform infrastructure investment priority decisions, as it will identify the road segments with the largest impact on the evacuation route/network performance. The research products will include a geographic information system (GIS) database of safety elements from local jurisdictions, an evaluation of the degree to which the State Highway System (SHS) and bus and rail lines contribute to the evacuation system, and a screening of the SHS to identify the most critical parts of the network and areas of potential shortfall or lack of evacuation infrastructure. At the state level, this project will identify the alignment and gaps of local plans and state transportation infrastructure to vulnerable communities as documented in CalEnviroScreen and the US Census. The case studies of proposed evacuation plans with actual evacuation events will be performed on two (2) to five (5) case locations. The research will provide a calculation of the performance of the evacuation routes, the road network, and the performance of the evacuation routes for different segments of the population. Finally, the team will discuss the recommendations on how to achieve efficiencies and promote safe evacuation routes, present the final results in public and internal meetings, and the team will submit a journal article that presents the methodology for peer review.

• Record URL:
  https://ncst.ucdavis.edu/project/improving-public-safety-through-spatial-synthesis-mapping-modeling-and-performance-analysis

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $248798
• Contract Numbers:

  65A0686 Task Order 076

  DOT 69A3551747114

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  California Department of Transportation

  1227 O Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95843
• Managing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  University of California, Davis

  1 Shields Ave
  Davis, California  United States  95616
• Project Managers:

  Iacobucci, Lauren

• Performing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  University of California, Davis

  1 Shields Ave
  Davis, California  United States  95616
• Principal Investigators:

  Jaller, Miguel

  Thorne, James

• Start Date: 20230531
• Expected Completion Date: 20240930
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Evacuation; Geographic information systems; Infrastructure; Mapping; Network analysis (Planning); Routes; Safety
• Geographic Terms: California
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01884507
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Sustainable Transportation
• Contract Numbers: 65A0686 Task Order 076, DOT 69A3551747114
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jun 2 2023 8:13PM