| Abstract or description |
- Wildfires pose significant threats to communities, requiring robust pre-event planning for efficient evacuations. Within the realm of climate resilience and transportation, this study addresses persistent global research gaps, particularly concerning transportation assets and modes beyond vehicles. This study conducts a systematic review of four under-researched areas — infrastructure, modality, networks, and planning — to build a more comprehensive understanding of wildfire evacuations. Initial research is emerging in these domains, related to post-fire debris flows, air and transit evacuations, network analysis, and shelter planning. However, systematic analyses, evidence, and recommendations remain lacking. This includes wildfire's direct impact on transportation infrastructure, multi-modal evacuations, routing strategies, and community-driven evacuation plans. This review also points to the inclusion of wildfire and debris flow considerations into existing resilience tools, especially in designing fire-ready infrastructure, transportation, and communities. By providing context-specific insights, identifying pivotal actions, and elucidating ongoing research gaps, this research contributes to building climate-resilient communities in the face of escalating wildfire risks.
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