Using ITS in Helping Florida Manage Evacuations

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Using ITS in Helping Florida Manage Evacuations

• Bob Collins
• Florida Division of Emergency Management

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Holmes
Jackson
Escambia
Santa Rosa
Okaloosa
Walton
Gadsden
Nassau
Washington
Hamilton
Calhoun
Leon
Jefferson
Bay
Madison
Duval
Columbia
Wakulla
Suwannee
Baker
Liberty
Taylor
Clay
Union
Gulf
Franklin
Lafayette
Bradford
St. Johns
Gilchrist
Alachua
Putnam
Dixie
Flagler
Levy
Marion
Volusia
Category 1 Clearance Times
Lake
Citrus
Seminole
Sumter
Hernando
Orange
Pasco
Brevard
Clearance Times Under 10 Hours
Osceola
Hillsborough
Pinellas
Polk
Indian River
Hardee
Okeechobee
Manatee
Clearance Times 10 - 18 Hours
St. Lucie
Highlands
DeSoto
Martin
Sarasota
Glades
Charlotte
Lee
Hendry
Palm Beach
Clearance Times 18 - 24 Hours
Broward
Collier
Miami-Dade
Monroe
Clearance Times Over 24 Hours
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Holmes
Jackson
Escambia
Santa Rosa
Okaloosa
Walton
Gadsden
Nassau
Washington
Hamilton
Calhoun
Leon
Jefferson
Bay
Madison
Duval
Columbia
Wakulla
Suwannee
Baker
Liberty
Taylor
Clay
Union
Gulf
Franklin
Lafayette
Bradford
St. Johns
Gilchrist
Alachua
Putnam
Dixie
Flagler
Levy
Marion
Volusia
Category 3 Clearance Times
Lake
Citrus
Seminole
Sumter
Hernando
Orange
Pasco
Brevard
Clearance Times Under 10 Hours
Osceola
Hillsborough
Pinellas
Polk
Indian River
Hardee
Okeechobee
Manatee
Clearance Times 10 - 18 Hours
St. Lucie
Highlands
DeSoto
Martin
Sarasota
Glades
Charlotte
Lee
Hendry
Palm Beach
Clearance Times 18 - 24 Hours
Broward
Collier
Miami-Dade
Monroe
Clearance Times Over 24 Hours
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Holmes
Jackson
Escambia
Santa Rosa
Okaloosa
Walton
Gadsden
Nassau
Washington
Hamilton
Calhoun
Leon
Jefferson
Bay
Madison
Duval
Columbia
Wakulla
Suwannee
Baker
Liberty
Taylor
Clay
Union
Gulf
Franklin
Lafayette
Bradford
St. Johns
Gilchrist
Alachua
Putnam
Dixie
Flagler
Levy
Marion
Volusia
Category 5 Clearance Times
Lake
Citrus
Seminole
Sumter
Hernando
Orange
Pasco
Brevard
Clearance Times Under 10 Hours
Osceola
Hillsborough
Pinellas
Polk
Indian River
Hardee
Okeechobee
Manatee
Clearance Times 10 - 18 Hours
St. Lucie
Highlands
DeSoto
Martin
Sarasota
Glades
Charlotte
Lee
Hendry
Palm Beach
Clearance Times 18 - 24 Hours
Broward
Collier
Miami-Dade
Monroe
Clearance Times Over 24 Hours
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Regional Evacuation Procedures
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Regional Planning Elements 1. Coordinated
Decision Making 2. Consistency of Evacuation
Zones and Routes 3. Multi-county Traffic
Management 4. Risk / Host Sheltering
Procedures 5. Consistent Public
Information 6. Multi-County Re-entry
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• 1. Decision Making Process
• Identification of Risk and Host
• areas
• Implementation of evacuations
• Utilizing resources located in
• non-vulnerable areas
• Regional re-entry planning

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• 2. A consistent state-wide
• evacuation road network
• 3. Coordinated traffic
• management plans
• FDOT, FHP and DEM working
• with County Sheriffs Offices
• Traffic Control Points
• Barriers and barricades

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• 4. Risk and Host Sheltering
• Procedures
• Host sheltering designated under a mission
  tasking from SEOC
• All counties must develop Host Shelter Procedures
• Shelter Manager Reserve

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5. Consistent Public Information

• PIOs in all affected counties
• Coordination procedures among PIOs during
  events
• Communicating emergency
• information to evacuees
• Regional coordination, consistent messages

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Coordination

• All counties in host regions will
• be directed by the SCO to activate
• their EOCs to support local protective
• actions
• coordinate response activities with
• each other and the SEOC
• be included in all declaration
• requests and Executive Orders

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Coordination

• All counties will
• develop a host response component
• to their CEMP
• be included in evacuatio coordination
• conference calls
• The Regional Evacuation Procedure will be updated
  to address host region response tasks

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Traffic Management

• All risk and host sheriffs included
• Field report data from FHP Troops
• Real time traffic counts from SEOC
• Local incident management teams
• to coordinate intersection staffing
• and signal timing

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Emergency Public Information

• Identify critical sites for information within
  each region
• Identify needed and available resources
• FDOT flip-down shelter signs
• Portable radio transmitters at all rest areas
• FHP and FDOT PIOs taking a greater role in
  distributing information

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FDEM WEB SITE http//www.dca.state.fl.us/fdem U
nder Internet Library SOP for Regional
Evacuation
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Floridas Contra Flow Operations

• FDOT, FHP and DEM
• Local input was solicited
• FHP has command and control
• DOT assisting FHP in developing operational plans
  
• FLNG augmenting staff
• I-10, Fl Tpk, Beeline and I-75 augmentation have
  been exercised

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Timelines and Criteria

• Must be cat 4 or higher
• Must threaten more than one region.
• Must have approximately 49 hours of setup time
  and operational time before arrival of tropical
  storm force winds.
• Must have approximately 12 full hours of daylight
  to operate the contra-flow plan.

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Evacuation Information
FDOT Interactive Real Time Traffic
Counters Development of an interactive traffic
model (Spreadsheet)
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Traffic Counters

• Located to provide advance
• warning to receiving / host
• jurisdictions
• Necessary to monitor road
• conditions and evacuation status
• Necessary for evacuation
• shutdown
• Provide critical data for Travel
• Demand Forecast Model

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Traffic Counters
www.dot.state.fl.us/ trafficinformation
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Real Time Travel Demand Forecast Model (TDFM)

• Developed under Hurricane Floyd
• Post Storm Analysis by PBS J
• Interactive hurricane evacuation
• decision making program
• Data from consolidated hurricane
• evacuation study transportation
• analyses
• Eventual capability to ingest traffic
• counter data

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TDFM Applications

• To alert law enforcement and
• DOT to potential trouble areas
• on evac network
• Public information
• Host county impact analysis
• Interstate impact analysis
• Eventual contingency planning

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TDFM County Input Table
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TDFM Evacuation Results
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TDFM Evacuation Results Zoom
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TDFM Plot
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TDFM County Evacuation Info - Volusia
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TDFM Evacuation Route Results
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TDFM Evac Route Results - Tallahassee Link
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Real Time Travel Demand Forecast Model
www.fematdfm.com
Read only access password flus001
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TDFM and ITS Applications

• Monitoring the progress of
• evacuations
• (hypothetical vs real)
• Evacuation shutdown
• procedures
• Potentially more accurate
• clearance times