Evacuation Route Plan for Electoral Area E complete

The Evacuation Route Plan for Electoral Area E is complete and can be viewed on the RDN website at https://www.rdn.bc.ca/evacuations. The Evacuation Route Exercise Get Involved page will be archived in two weeks on July 6, 2020.

The RDN would like to thank those who participated in the exercise on February 13, 2020. The exercise compared vehicle headways from the traffic modelling scenario developed has part of the Evacuation Route Plan to actual driver behaviour. The traffic modelling scenario used ICBC recommendations of a 2 second gap in between vehicles therefore an approximation of 9.7 seconds for a vehicle to pass stop-controlled intersections, the observed time during the exercise indicated approximately 6.5 seconds with a difference of 3.2 seconds. This indicates that the total time required to evacuate in the completed evacuation route plan, may be somewhat conservative and in an actual evacuation, the time required could be slightly less subject to general preparedness.

Thanks again for your participation and helping us validate the results of the plan!