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Use of Freeway Shoulders for Travel — Guide for Planning, Evaluating, and Designing Part-Time Shoulder Use as a Traffic Management Strategy

Part-time shoulder use is the conversion of shoulders to travel lanes during some hours of day as a congestion relief strategy. This strategy is also known as temporary shoulder use or hard shoulder running, and is typically implemented on freeways. Part-time shoulder use is a transportation syst

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BDV24-977-11 Evaluating the Impact and Usefulness of Highway Advisory Radio and Citizens' Band Radio Advisory Systems

BDV24-977-11 Evaluating the Impact and Usefulness of Highway Advisory Radio and Citizens' Band Radio Advisory Systems in providing Travel Information and Improving the User Experience on the Florida Turnpike Enterprise's Toll Road Network and FIH System

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Cooperative Research Programs Security Research Status Report April 2016

Cooperative Research Programs Security Research Status Report April 2016

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Active Traffic Management Feasibility and Screening Guide

This Guide was developed to assist transportation agencies and planning organizations in making informed investment decisions regarding Active Traffic Management (ATM) by determining the feasibility of ATM strategies before committing significant resources towards any subsequent project developme

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Securing Transportation Assets (TSA)

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) created this presentation to go along with the Securing Transportation Assets & Operations: Mitigation Strategies for Highway Modes document. Contact TSA at HighwaySecurity@tsa.dhs.gov with questions, comments, or suggestions about the content

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Traffic Incident Management Quick Clearance Guidance and Implications

Traffic Incident Management Quick Clearance Guidance and Implications

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Freight Movement in Emergency Situations

Austroads has released a report that researches how essential and general freight movement assists the economic resilience of industry and communities impacted by emergencies. This report is available for no fee after logging on to the site.

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Incorporating Transportation Security Awareness into Routine State DOT Operations and Training

A Guide for incorporating transportation security awareness into routine state DOT operations and training
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A Guide to Regional Transportation Planning for Disasters, Emergencies, and Significant Events

A Guide to the principles and resources for facilitating regional transportation planning, coordination, and operations across all modes for disasters, emergencies, and significant events
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A Debris Management Handbook for State and Local DOTs and Departments of Public Works

A Handbook with recommended practices and procedures for debris management for local, tribal, and state transportation and public works agencies.
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Methodologies to Estimate the Economic Impacts of Disruptions to the Goods Movement System

Describes the impacts of bottlenecks and interruptions to the flow of goods through the nation’s major freight corridors and intermodal connectors, the dynamics of that flow in response to disruptions, and the full economic impact on public and private entities.
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A Pre-Event Recovery Planning Guide for Transportation

A Guide that provides pre-event recovery planning principles, processes, tools, and appended resource materials in pre-event planning to support transportation infrastructure recovery.
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A Transportation Guide for All Hazards Emergency Evacuation

A Guide presenting specific lessons learned as a result of major incidents using an all hazards approach.
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Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies

This Primer is an introductory-level reference document to enhance the working knowledge of security concepts, guidelines, definitions, and standards for transportation managers and employees with either minimal or no formal security training.
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A Guide to Planning Resources on Transportation and Hazards

Security-related research and resources, and an introduction to interdisciplinary research and applications undertaken by the hazards research community
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A Guide to Emergency Response Planning at State Transportation Agencies

A Guide for use by state transportation agencies in planning and developing their organizational functions, roles, and responsibilities for emergency response within the all-hazards NIMS context. This report replaces a 2002 document, "A Guide to Updating Highway Emergency Response Plans for Terroris
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A Guide to Traffic Control of Rural Roads in an Agricultural Emergency

Recommended practices and procedures for emergency quarantine and isolation controls for local and state roads with minimal resources typical for a rural region.
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Continuity of Operations (COOP) Planning Guidelines for Transportation Agencies

Developed and state of the practice guidance for efficiently resuming transportation agency operations following a terrorist attack or other natural or man-made disasters.
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A Guide to Transportation's Role in Public Health Disasters

Technical information on chemical, biological, and radiological threats; vulnerabilities of the transportation system to these agents; consequence-minimization actions that may be taken. Includes a software tool, user’s guide, and executive briefing slides
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Guidelines for Transportation Emergency Training Exercises

Provides guidance to assist transportation agencies in developing drills and excercises in alignment with the National Incident Management System (NIMS).
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Costing Asset Protection, An All Hazards Guide for Transportation Agencies (CAPTA)

CAPTA provides users with a capital planning and budgeting tool, used as a strategic point of departure for resource allocation decisions. CAPTA enables an agency to base allocation decisions on objective data about assets.
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