Paper submissions

CALL FOR PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

NATIONAL EVACUATION CONFERENCE

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: September 30, 2009

The National Evacuation Conference will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, February 3 – 5, 2010.  The Conference will bring together professionals, academics, nonprofit and for-profit organizations, consultants, emergency mangers, and transportation planners to discuss evacuation planning for cities and regions across the United States.  The purpose of the conference is to foster an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas surrounding a broad range of evacuation issues, particularly mass evacuations prompted by disasters.

The Conference will address but is not solely limited to the following themes: 

  1. •National, State, Regional and Local Evacuation Policy

  2. •Evacuation for Carless and Vulnerable Populations

  3. •Evacuation Modeling

  4. •Evacuation Planning around Nuclear Power Plants

  5. •Legal Issues in Evacuation Planning

  6. •Communications and Human Behavior in Evacuations

  7. •Issues for First Responders and Voluntary Organizations during Evacuations

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit abstracts for presenting at the conference.  Abstracts will be due September 30, 2009 and should indicate if the author plans to submit a full paper, which will be due by December 31, 2009.  Full papers will be made available as part of a conference compendium and will be considered for publication in one of two special journal issues:

Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy (http://www.bepress.com/pso_risk/)

Journal of Transportation Safety and Security (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/19439962.asp)

Please submit your abstract online here


For further inquiries, feel free to contact:


Brian J. Gerber, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Public Administration Institute

Louisiana State University

bgerber@lsu.edu



John L. Renne, Ph.D., AICP

Assistant Professor, Associate Director, Gulf Coast Research Center for Evacuation and Transportation Resiliency

Department of Planning and Urban Studies

University of New Orleans

jrenne@uno.edu



Brian Wolshon, Ph.D., P.E., P.T.O.E.

Professor and Director

The Gulf Coast Research Center for Evacuation and Transportation

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Louisiana State University

brian@rsip.lsu.edu