Northern B.C. driving study aims to improve wildfire evacuations

A University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) PhD candidate is studying local driving behaviour to help improve wildfire evacuation planning.
According to a press release by UNBC, Alireza Noory, a natural resources and environmental studies (NRES) doctoral student, is studying how those driving decisions could help improve wildfire evacuation planning in northern B.C. and beyond.
“Using behaviour collected from local drivers can make evacuation forecasts more realistic and help local ag