# 2024-12 UC Berkeley graduate students report on Berkeley Evacuation

**URL:** <https://www.berkeleyfirewise.org/t/2024-12-uc-berkeley-graduate-students-report-on-berkeley-evacuation/172>\
**Category:** Prepare for evacuation\
**Tags:** evacuation\
**Created:** [February 26, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://www.berkeleyfirewise.org/t/2024-12-uc-berkeley-graduate-students-report-on-berkeley-evacuation/172 "2025-02-26T16:23:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![MichelThouati](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/www.berkeleyfirewise.org/michelthouati/32/179_2.png) [@MichelThouati](https://www.berkeleyfirewise.org/u/MichelThouati)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://www.berkeleyfirewise.org/t/2024-12-uc-berkeley-graduate-students-report-on-berkeley-evacuation/172/1 "2025-02-26T16:23:29Z")

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![UCB Students Evacuation Study Dec 2024](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/uploads/berkeleyfirewise/original/1X/9b1c53c0954af60760204ecec9a162b1e4c736c1.jpeg)

This interesting 2024 report, authored by several graduate students at UC Berkeley, was recently discussed in a City of Berkeley Commission.

[City planning graduate students publish emergency access and evacuation report for the Berkeley Hills - UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design](https://ced.berkeley.edu/news/berkeley-hills-emergency-access-and-evacuation-report-published-by-mcp-students)

The authors have a set of recommendations in the report, many of which have been requested by local residents over the past few years. Among them:

- actually enforce existing parking regulations on the hillside, since most streets may end up as evacuation routes
- no parking on Red Flag days
- Residential Parking Permit (RPP) Program to limit the number of cars
- Subsidize Transportation Network Company Trips (Uber/Lyft etc.)
- Improve Transit Options
- Increase No Parking Zones

In case the UC Berkeley page link goes away:

- [Direct link to the report]([Getting In, Out, and About](https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/06831ab8d42b41bfa43d03ae6b4a279f))
- last resort low-resolution download: [2024-12-15\_CP218\_EmergencyResponse\_FinalReport\_Compressed.pdf](https://www.berkeleyfirewise.org/uploads/short-url/sF9oaNjxqmMKGGu35qf4Q34HloM.pdf) (1.2 MB)

_Thanks to Rena Fischer and Chris Cullander for access to the report_