National Evacuation Conference Features State-of-the-Art Evacuation Modeling and Analysis

Many recent advancements in the theory and practice of mass evacuation transportation planning, operations, and management spawned the need for a forum where practitioners, academics, and students could discuss current evacuation problems and share state-of-the-art solutions. Building on one of the priorities of the University Transportation Centers (UTC) program-technology transfer-the Gulf Coast Research Center for Evacuation and Transportation Resiliency, a UTC jointly administered by Louisiana State University (LSU) and the University of New Orleans (UNO), led the creation of the inaugural National Evacuation Conference (NEC).