CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERS MEMBER NEWSLETTER
Volume 38, Number 3
The
Fort McMurray Wildfire Reconstructing a Multimodal
Evacuation Process BY KATHY HUI AND AMY KIM
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
FEATURES Fort McMurray Wildfire: Reconstructing a Multimodal Evacuation Process . . . . . 1, 10 My Favourite: Transit Priority Location . . . . 7 Member Highlight: Garreth Rempel . . . . . 16 CITE NEWS President's Ponderings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 TAC Tidbits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 TLC Call for New Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Meet Your CITE Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Section News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Student Chapter News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Student Event Sweepstakes . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 UPDATES FROM ITE INTERNATIONAL District Director's Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Joint ITE/CITE 2017 Annual Meeting and Exhibition – Toronto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Advertising Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 CITE Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
During the Fort McMurray wildfire evacuation of May 2016, residents would pass through heavy smoke, burning trees, and a Super 8 motel in flames as they escaped to safety along Highway 63. First discovered on May 1, 2016, the wildfire quickly spread through northern Alberta and resulted in the evacuation of over 88,000 people from the urban service area of Fort McMurray. This evacuation, which included mandatory evacuation by personal vehicles, aircraft, and RCMP-escorted vehicle convoys, was carried out over five days and resulted in the largest and costliest fire evacuation in Canada to date. The transportation systems research group at the University of Alberta assembled and assessed data and other information in order to piece together the events of the evacuation and illuminate some of its major characteristics. Continued on page 10... CREDIT: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS - DARRENRD
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