their purchase decision.The third essay addressed a limitation to existing hurricane evacuation modeling aspects by … developing a dynamic model of hurricane evacuation behavior. A household’s evacuation decision was framed as an optimal stopping … problem where every potential evacuation time period prior to the actual hurricane landfall, the household’s optimal choice is …

this extremely relevant trait of cyclones. The results also suggest that the influence of risk and fear on evacuation …

consider evacuation after viewing a forecasted graphic of where the storm is anticipated to make landfall. During the … evacuation process, hurricane tracks commonly deviate from the forecasted landfall track and many evacuees may not pay attention … official forecasted track, and the perceived track of each individual as they made their evacuation decision. Specifically for …

Although there is a substantial amount of research on households’ hurricane evacuation decision making, there is much … evacuation logistics has consistently shown that most evacuees stay in the homes of friends and relatives or in commercial … facilities rather than in public shelters. However, evacuation logistics—which can be defined as the activities and associated …

Though most hurricane evacuation studies have focused on residents, tourists are also a vulnerable population. To … assess their perceptions of risk and evacuation likelihood under different hurricane conditions, we surveyed 448 tourists … of risk and evacuation likelihood for respondents located on Pinellas County beaches or inland near Orlando, FL. Highly …