Resilient Transportation Systems in a Post-Disaster Environment: A Case Study of Opportunities Realized and Missed in New Orleans and the Louisiana Coastal Region
Research efforts will focus on specific non-highway transportation systems which have been used in response to recent man-made and natural disasters in the United States. The 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center will be used to establish a national perspective on non-highway modes for disaster evacuation and recovery: i.e. public transit, passenger and freight rail, and maritime. These same systems, serving both New Orleans and Coastal Louisiana, have also been used in post-disaster evacuation and recovery efforts since August, 2005. We will review the impacts to and response of these systems in specific natural disasters: i.e. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 and Ike and Gustav in 2008. These storms and their aftermath exposed significant disconnects in our pre-storm disaster planning relative to the use of specific transportation assets. Recommendations will be made per mode so that individually and collectively they will form integral parts of a resilient transportation system serving the region, the state as well as the nation's Hurricane Belt.
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Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $44616.00
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Sponsor Organizations:
Gulf Coast Research Center for Evacuation and Transportation Resiliency
Louisiana State University
3221 P.F. Taylor Hall
Baton Rouge, LA United States 70803 -
Performing Organizations:
Gulf Coast Research Center for Evacuation and Transportation Resiliency
Louisiana State University
3221 P.F. Taylor Hall
Baton Rouge, LA United States 70803 -
Principal Investigators:
Amdal, James
- Start Date: 20090901
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 20101130
- Source Data: RiP Project 23413
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Case studies; Coastal engineering; Disaster preparedness; Disasters and emergency operations; Evacuation; Freight transportation; Hurricanes; Public transit; Research projects; Water transportation
- Uncontrolled Terms: Recovery operations
- Geographic Terms: Orleans Parish (Louisiana)
- Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Public Transportation; Security and Emergencies;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01464113
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Gulf Coast Research Center for Evacuation and Transportation Resiliency
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Jan 3 2013 2:36PM