Has the use of aircraft been addressed in the Mass Evacuation Transportation Model? What about air evacuation?
Tom Rich: The model includes an “overflow facility” where patients are transported in the event that there isn’t capacity available at the designated receiving facilities. The overflow facility could be thought of as an airport for air evacuation, but the model does not allow you to specify where those air-evacuated patients would be transported.
Related Questions
- Can you discuss the process by which the travel time estimate is arrived at in the Mass Evacuation Transportation Model? In addition to distance, what other features are taken into consideration?
- How was load time determined in the Mass Evacuation Transportation Model? Are the pre-loaded per patient load times based on previous experience or observations in an exercise?
- How to make a model air plane?
