Mission-Informed Evacuation Models for Naval Station Newport and Aquidneck Island

Abstract

During major hurricanes, key roads and facilities for military missions can become disrupted and unreachable. This is compounded with local evacuation orders that require nearby communities and military personnel to quickly leave the area. Yet, many military installations and municipalities do not coordinate their evacuation plans, leading to major traffic jams that further disrupt operations on and off base. In this work, we develop a mathematical model and a robust data set of roads, at-risk populations, and evacuation destinations to analyze optimal evacuation for Naval Station (NAVSTA) Newport and surrounding communities on Aquidneck Island. Our work informs possible prioritization of evacuation for all at-risk populations - civilian and military - and identifies critical infrastructure that can assist in minimizing the total evacuation clearance time for Aquidneck Island. Analysis in this thesis was used to advise emergency operations at NAVSTA Newport prior to landfall of Hurricane Henri in New England in August 2021.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1164308

Entities

People

  • Amanda M. Jones

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Climate Change
  • Coastal Flooding
  • Emergency Response
  • Flood Hazards
  • Flow Network
  • Geography
  • Information Systems
  • Management Personnel
  • Mathematical Models
  • Meteorology
  • New England
  • Oceanography
  • Operations Research
  • Sea Level
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Storm Surges
  • Topography
  • Transportation Infrastructure
  • Urban Areas

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.