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.

• Record URL:
  http://evaccenter.lsu.edu/pub/10-01.pdf
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Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $44616.00
• 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