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Assessment of Intended Electric Vehicle Usage and Travel Behaviour during Wildfire Evacuations
Download2025-01-22
Babaei, Mohammad Hossein, Wong, Stephen D.
The rise in the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) presents a unique challenge for disaster planning. Their reliance upon the grid for fuel requires capable and resilient electricity infrastructure to withstand the surge in demand during evacuation scenarios. This grid resilience is crucial for...
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Electric vehicles in emergencies and evacuations: a review of resilience and future research directions
Download2024-10-21
Babaei, Mohammad Hossein, Wong, Stephen D.
Disasters often require large-scale evacuations, and damage key infrastructure (e.g., power, transportation). With growing electric vehicle (EV) adoption and electrification of transportation, governments and utilities may face significant power challenges during disasters, especially during the...
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2024-11-01
Wambura, Veronica, Wong, Stephen D.
Climate change, extreme weather events, and human-initiated disasters necessitate resilient approaches to emergency preparedness and evacuation planning. Previous disasters, including in North America, have revealed the inadequacy of evacuation planning that is multi-modal and inclusive of...
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Naturalistic Experiment for Surface Transportation: A Study of Snowplow Lighting under Winter Conditions
Download2024-11-01
Wong, Andy H., Sharma, Davesh, Kilani, Omar, Rad, Faeze Momeni, Wong, Stephen D., Kwon, Tae J., El-Basyouny, Karim
Inclement winter weather poses a safety risk to all road users, primarily due to roads covered with snow or ice and substantially reduced visibility. The winter road maintenance vehicles used are often larger and slower moving than the surrounding traffic and often become a hazard themselves. To...
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2024-04-10
Ciriaco, Thayanne M. G., Wambura, Veronica, Wong, Stephen D.
A changing climate is placing significant strain on urban environments as communities are contending with intensifying and more frequent hazards. Communities are simultaneously facing ongoing and new societal challenges that centre around a need for critical services and resources. To help people...
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2024-02-29
Ciriaco, Thayanne G. M., Wambura, Veronica, Wong, Stephen D.
Resilience hubs are facilities located within communities designed to improve residents' quality of life and increase the community's ability to respond to emergencies and disasters (Baja, 2016, 2018, 2019; Ciriaco & Wong, 2022). These hubs provide essential services and resources that are...
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Systematic Review and Research Gaps on Wildfire Evacuations: Infrastructure, Transportation Modes, Networks, and Planning
Download2023-11-01
Zehra, Syeda N., Wong, Stephen D.
Wildfires pose significant threats to communities, requiring robust pre-event planning for efficient evacuations. Transportation systems are crucial for these efforts, yet global research gaps persist, especially those related to transportation assets and transportation modes beyond privately...
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2024-10-23
Wambura, Veronica, Wong, Stephen D.
This brief presents a profile of five communities in Alberta and British Columbia that have previously been affected by wildfires and/or are prone to experiencing wildfire events in the future. The report offers community-specific insights into evacuation decisions, preparedness, and logistical...