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Evacuating Florida in 2004 Hurricane Evacuation Transportation Workshop April 5, 2004

Evacuating Florida in 2004 Hurricane Evacuation Transportation Workshop April 5, 2004. Paul Clark FDOT - Tallahassee Emergency Management Coordinator paul.clark @dot.state.fl.us. DOT Traffic Counter Website. Traffic counter data on website: www3.dot.state.fl.us/ trafficinformation

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Evacuating Florida in 2004 Hurricane Evacuation Transportation Workshop April 5, 2004

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  1. Evacuating Floridain 2004 Hurricane Evacuation Transportation WorkshopApril 5, 2004 Paul Clark FDOT - Tallahassee Emergency Management Coordinator paul.clark @dot.state.fl.us

  2. DOT Traffic Counter Website Traffic counter data on website: www3.dot.state.fl.us/ trafficinformation FDOT and DEM selected the 50 sensor locations specifically to support evacuation needs

  3. DOT Traffic Counter Data • Provides hourly vehicle counts, average speed, historical numbers for that specific day and time • Each counter senses vehicles in both directions to support the five designated contra-flow plans • 15 can be activated at one time • Some will have live video camera view capability

  4. DOT Traffic Counter Data

  5. DOT Traffic Counter Data • Operational Uses: • Alert host counties and communities upstream of evacuating areas to the arrival time and numbers of potential evacuees on roadways and shelters • Public information to inform evacuees and others of areas experiencing traffic congestion • Monitor the actual status of evacuations relative to predicted clearance times

  6. DOT Traffic Counter Data • Operational Uses: • Evacuation shutdown planning - determining when to divert traffic or shut down interstate interchanges based on: • average vehicle speed at the sensor and • the time needed to clear predicted vehicle queues before the arrival time of tropical storm force winds

  7. Interstate 10Jacksonville to Tallahassee Begin: I-295 End: US 19 Total Length: 131 miles

  8. Florida’s TurnpikeFort Pierce to Orlando Begin: SR 70 End: SR 50 Total Length: 114 miles

  9. Bee Line ExpresswaySR 520 to SR 417 Begin: SR 520 End: SR 417 Total Length: 22 miles

  10. Interstate 4Tampa to Orlando Begin: I-275 End: SR 417 Total Length: 63 miles

  11. Interstate 75 – Alligator AlleyEast and West Bound Eastbound Begin: CR 951 End: US 27 Total Length: 78 miles Westbound Begin: US 27 End: Corkscrew Rd Total Length: 105 miles

  12. Interstate 75Shoulder Use Plan Begin: Toledo Blade Blvd End: SR 681 Total Length: 21 miles

  13. Partnerships • Know who all the stakeholders are! • Local Cities and Counties • Florida DOT • Florida Highway Patrol • Florida Division of Emergency Management • Florida National Guard • Florida Department of Law Enforcement • Florida Department of Health • Florida Public Radio • Volunteer Agencies • And the list goes on

  14. Future for Florida • Exercises • Statewide Hurricane Exercise (May 3-7, 2004) • FDOT Hurricane Exercise (TBD) • Continue to look to technology and its uses • Plan, Plan, and Plan some more!

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