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Ike’s lessons: is alternative to single evacuation path no possible?
By WDavidStephenson | September 12, 2008
I’m just speculating on this, but it does seem to me — as I blogged during Rita (when there were considerably fewer GPS’s on the road) — that it ought to be at least technologically possible today to not order everyone in Houston to evacuate via I-10.
Instead, since we can precisely identify where a car is now, IMHO, authorities could instead create a variety of evacuation plans that would route you via a differing combination of roads depending on where you were when you started the evacuation. It could even alter the routes on the fly if backups similar to the ones that developed during Rita happen.
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What do you think?
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