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Identification and Delineation of Incident Management and Multi-Agency Emergency Response Functions

Defines, compares, and contrasts the functions associated with day-to-day incident management activities and multi-agency emergency response activities in order to define and target state DOT job functions, research, training, and committee related activities.
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Blast-Resistant Highway Bridges: Designs and Detailing Guidelines

Provides design guidance for improving the structural performance and resistance to explosive effects of new and existing bridges.
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Transportations Rule in Emergency Evacuation and Reentry

A comprehensive and systematic review of current practice for evacuation and repopulation, considering the use of modes for low-mobility individuals.
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Disaster Response in Transportation Planning

This report documents peer exchange discussions between State and MPO planning directors regarding priority issues in security, disaster response, and planning. This meeting was held as a part of NCHRP 8-36(69).
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Emergency Contracting: Flexibilities in Contracting Procedures During an Emergency

This paper addresses issues surrounding post-disaster contracting procedures including limitations imposed by grant agreements. It discusses federal procurement flexibility in a recovery context.
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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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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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Guide for Emergency Transportation Operations

Guidance for state DOTs to coordinate activities with law enforcement, fire service, and emergency management.
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Sharing Information Between Public Safety and Transportation Agencies for Traffic Incident Management

Presents lessons learned about how public safety and transportation agencies share traffic incident information.
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Incorporating Security into the Transportation Planning Process

This report prvides a point-in-time discussion on how security considerations have been reflected in long-range planning programs within DOTs and MPOs. The report documents strategies, processes, and practices in use circa 2004.
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