Evacuation may involve hundreds or hundreds of thousands of people.
Regardless of the numbers, in every instance, the transportation network plays a key role in evacuating people out of harm’s way.
Over the past two decades, the transportation community has improved its ability to manage and operate the transportation network.
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recognizes the unique challenges posed by the disaster environment on mobility and the safe and secure movement of people and goods. As a result, FHWA seeks to improve evacuation planning and implementation by bringing new ways of more effectively using the transportation network, before and during evacuations, to the emergency management community.