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Very little is known about evacuation expenditures at the household level even though improved understanding of those expenditures can provide inputs for designing more effective evacuation programs and planning. We conducted a household survey in Harris and Galveston counties in Texas after being hit by hurricane Ike (one of the costliest hurricanes that have impacted the USA) to investigate the...
This experiment assessed the strike probability (ps) judgments and protective action recommendations (PARs) of students playing the roles of county emergency managers during four different hurricane scenarios. The results show that participants’ ps judgments (1) increased for target cities (projected landfall locations) and generally decreased for adjacent cities and remote cities as hurricanes...
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