TRB Annual Meeting
Business meeting held
1. 57 attendees
2. It was announced that Subcommitte ANB10(4) was elevated to Task Force ANB80T
3. 7 speakers presented: David G. Henry, National Governors Association Center for Best Practices; Laurie Radow, USDOT/FHWA; Hubert Ley, Argonne National Laboratory; Russell J. Strickland, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Chester Wilmot, Louisiana State University; Serge Hoogendoorn and Mignon van den Berg, Delft University of Technology
4. Through unsolicited submissions and a Call for Papers issued jointly with the Critical Transportation Infrastructure Protection Committees, the subcommittee received 38 papers in August 2011 for review by its members. From these, a podium and poster session were developed. Details on the Subcommittee sponsored sessions are included below.
Session 706 - Emergency Evacuation Research Developments
o Simulating Effects of Social Networks on People’s Hurricane Evacuation Rates (12-0537) - C01
Effectiveness of Traffic Management Strategies at End Site Receiving Emergency Evacuation Traffic (12-2636) - C02
o From Social Networks to Evacuation Traveler Decision Making: Exploratory Departure Time Choice Modeling and Simulation (12-3102) - C03
o Travel Time Reliability During Evacuation: Impact of Heterogeneous Driving Behavior (12-3313) - C04
o Use of Regional Transportation Planning Tool for Modeling Emergency Evacuation: Case Study of Northern New Jersey (12-3762) - C05
o Integrated Model for Evacuation Routing and Traffic Signal Optimization with Background Demand Uncertainty (12-2342) - C06
o Study of Optimized Evacuation Route of Commercial Street Based on Microscopic Model (12-1367) - C07
o Lane-Group-Based Model for Dynamic Stochastic Evacuation Routing (12-2045) - C08
o Comparison of Time-Dependent Sequential Logit and Nested Logit for Modeling Hurricane Evacuation Demand (12-3959) - C09
o Bus Contraflow Lane: Improved Contraflow Approach in Freeway Evacuation (12-2403) - C10
o Factors Influencing Location of Police Traffic Control Points During Emergencies (12-4136) - C11
o Pickup Locations and Bus Allocation for Transit-Based Evacuation Planning with Demand Uncertainty (12-2941) - C12
o Modeling Risk Attitudes in Evacuation Departure Choices (12-4263) - C13
Session 752 - Putting Emergency Evacuation Research into Practice
o Changes in Evacuation Decisions Between Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina (12-3369)
o Dynamic Traffic Assignment Evaluation of Hurricane Evacuation Strategies for the Houston
o Galveston, Texas, Region (12-1499) Turning Angle on Emergency Egress: Experimental Evidence and Pedestrian Crowd Simulation (12-0999)
o Evacuee Route Choice Decisions in a Dynamic Hurricane Evacuation Context (12-3167)
Additional evacuation-related presentations were given in the following sessions:
o No. 517, ABE40 Managing Disasters: Communications Tools and Technologies, Shoreham, Jan 24 2011 10:15AM- 12:00PM
o No. 709, Current Issues in Aviation, Shoreham, Jan 25 2012 8:30AM- 10:15AM
o No. 774, Advances in Transportation Network Modeling, Hilton, Jan 25 2012 2:45PM- 4:30PM
o No. 796, Route Choice and Congestion Pricing in Networks, Hilton, Jan 25 2012 4:30PM- 6:00PM
o No. 800, Modeling Pedestrians and Motorized Traffic, Marriott, Jan 26 2012 8:00AM- 9:45AM
o No. 801, Network Models for Transit, Freight, and Supply Chains, Hilton, Jan 26 2012 8:00AM- 9:45AM
Workshop
Session No. 171, Supply Chain and Logistics Issues During Large-Scale Emergencies: A Closer Look, Shoreham Jan 22 2011 1:30PM- 4:30PM. Co-Sponsored by International Activities, Critical Transportation Infrastructure Protection, Emergency Evacuation, and Aviation Security and Emergency Management. The purpose of this workshop is to gain a better understanding of supply chain and logistics issues faced during large-scale disasters, how they have been mitigated, and what more can be done to address these issues. Disasters covered include Japan’s massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami and nuclear meltdown; Haiti’s magnitude 7.0 earthquake, which killed over 300,000 and left millions homeless; and the recent floods and tornadoes that have plagued the United States.
Conferences and Special Journal Issues
Over the past few years the members of the Task Force on Emergency Evacuation have been actively involved in the organization of several conferences:
The National Evacuation Conference (NEC)
The NEC was held at New Orleans in February of 2012. The conference was sponsored by TRB through the Evacvuation Task Force as well as other leading agencies including the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Governor’s Office for Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness in Louisiana, the Federal Emregency Management Agency (FEMA), and the Sandia and Argonnes National Laboratories. More than 80 speakers from around the U.S. and abroad presented on topics that ranged from the challenges faced by special needs populations during disasters to national evacuation policy development. The materials presented at this conference led to special issues of the American Society of Civil Engineers Natural Hazards Review and International Journal of Mass Emergency and Disasters (see below). The conference was also attended by TRB officials.
· Interdisciplinary and Multimodal Nature of Evacuations: Nexus of Research and Practice,” Special Issue of Natural Hazards Review, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 14, No. 3, 61 pp.
· “Emerging Developments in Evacuation Methods, Planning, and Analysis,” Special Issue of the International Journal of Mass Emergencies, Vol. 31, No. 1, 104 pp.
Midyear Meeting
The mid year meeting of the ANB80T task force was held in August 2012, in conjunction with the 2012 TRB Transportation Hazards and Security Summit, Irvine, California. During the meeting, members were updated on the theTask Force status of the group; dicussions were also held to develop research topics and problem statements within the committee; and reports on the coordination with other TRB committees. The meetting 17 attendees and joined by and eight additional members via conference line call–in.