Transportation Management Centers (TMC / TOC)

Research

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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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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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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Best Practice

System Security Awareness for Transportation Employees

System Security Awareness for Transportation Employees is a CD-based interactive multimedia training course designed to help transportation employees, supervisors, and managers define their roles and responsibilities in transportation system security, recognize suspicious activities and objects, obs
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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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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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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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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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Program Planning and Development for Transportation System Management and Operations (TSM&O) in State Department of Transportation

Understand the state of the practice in highway and traffic operations program planning and to begin defining alternative approaches to develop and administer these plans. This is the Final Report for NCHRP 20-07(345).
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Response to Extreme Weather Impacts on Transportation Systems

A comprehensive and systematic review of current practice, this synthesis will support the preparation of better adaptation planning and will set the stage for a unified, accessible resource that can be used to support DOT planning, preparation and budgetary requests.
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