Transportation Sustainability Research Center's Stephen Wong quoted in a Transport Topics article on disaster response. The article discusses different strategies for disaster response, particularly in light of Hurricane Laura, a Category 4 storm, making landfall in August 2020.
BERKELEY — A U.C. Berkeley team that conducted wildfire evacuation focus group research in Lake County released a report this week that recommends more use by government agencies of the sharing economy during disaster evacuations.
The report, entitled “Current State of the Sharing Economy and Evacuations: Lessons from...
Natural and man-made disasters and their emergency evacuations are more common than many people realize, and remain a common strategy to ensure safety. According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the most frequent causes of evacuations in the U.S. each year are fires and floods. Due to the heavy reliance on private vehicles in the U.S.,...
In the past few years, devastating California wildfires have forced more than half a million people to evacuate their homes. In many cases, local government agencies did not have enough resources to transport and shelter all of the evacuees, especially vulnerable populations like the elderly and disabled. Meanwhile those who...
