COASTAL VERSUS INLAND HURRICANE EVACUATION BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS
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2020-05
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University of Delaware
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This research investigates the evacuation behavior of coastal and inland populations, with inland areas defined as counties that do not touch the coast. Differences in evacuation decisions and the reasons for those differences are investigated in this work. The study is based on data from a web-based survey deployed after Hurricanes Florence and Michael in 2018 and Hurricanes Barry and Dorian in 2019. The results show that there is a difference in rates of evacuations between the two populations, but no conclusive difference in evacuation timing across storms. The results also suggest that inland populations are less aware of and responsive to orders as well as less concerned about the physical impact of a hurricane, implying that a different method of information dissemination may be necessary in inland counties in order to effectively convey the need to evacuate for a hurricane.
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civil engineering, hurricane evacuation,