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Training of Traffic Incident Responders

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-L12-RW-1: Training of Traffic Incident Responders presents the results of a project that developed a training program for traffic incident responders and managers.
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Emergency Exit Signs and Marking Systems for Highway Tunnels

A guide for emergency exit signs and marking systems (i.e., visual and audible) for highway tunnels, incorporating the most current technology and results of recent studies of human response in emergency evacuation.
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Information Sharing and Analysis Centers: Overview and Supporting Software Features

Provides necessary background information for making decisions on how to organize and share security threat information across transportation organizations.
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Guidance for Transportation Agencies on Managing Sensitive Information

Provides basic information about the two primary elements that should be the foundation for any transportation agency's sensitive information policy: how to identify sensitive information that must be protected and how to control access to that information responsibly.
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State Public Transportation Division Involvement in State Emergency Planning, Response, and Recovery

Best internal/external state planning, response, and recovery policies & practices pertaining to weather-related emergencies, emphasizing state public transportation and state passenger rail division involvement.
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Recommendations for Bridge and Tunnel Security

Presents the results of a series of expert group meetings and makes recommendations regarding establishing technical guidelines for bridge and tunnel security.
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Disruption Impact Estimating Tool - Transportation (DIETT): A Tool for Prioritizing High-Value Transportation Choke Points

Assistance for planners to identify and prioritize potential high-value transportation choke points (TCPs) such as bridges, tunnels and passes. It provides an electronic analytical/predictive tool that calculates direct and economic impacts(costs) of an event that precludes the use of a TCP.
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Making Transportation Tunnels Safe and Secure

Mitigation countermeasures are presented for threats related to crime and terrorism and hazards related to natural events
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A Guide to Updating Highway Emergency Response Plans for Terrorist Attacks

Planning guidance for state departments of transportation that want to incorporate the Incident Command System. This report has been replaced by Report 525 Vol 16 "A Guide to Emergency Response Planning at State Transportation Agencies."
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Guide for Emergency Transportation Operations

Guidance for state DOTs to coordinate activities with law enforcement, fire service, and emergency management.
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