Happy New Year! Here is an 18-minute presentation I put together for the Florida Department of Health on the intersection of smart growth transportation policy and health issues in disaster evacuation. It features some footage from just after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, as well as a discussion of the evacuations in Katrina and Rita (including some audio commentary from Mayor Ray Nagin). It turns out that densely populated areas can be more smoothly evacuated if they have robust public transportation infrastructures, and that even using one dedicated bus lane can cut down evacuation times by a whole bunch. Check it out here:
(Note that however formal this may be, it's in no way Florida policy. It's the governmental equivalent of a think piece...)
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