Transportation Management Centers (TMC / TOC)

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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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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 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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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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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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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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A Guide for Public Transportation Pandemic Planning and Response

A planning guide for use by all transit agencies with emphasis on small urban and rural transit agencies; human service transportation providers; and the state DOTs that provide oversight for grant recipients in both categories.
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Responding to Threats: A Field Personnel Manual

Provides a draft template that contains basic security awareness training in a workbook format that can be redesigned as a phamplet, glove box brochure, or other user specific product.
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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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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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