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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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