Role of Public Transportation in a Natural Disaster State of Emergency Declaration

Destructive natural disasters such as hurricanes or other extreme weather events challenge many industries, especially the public transit industry. The 2017 hurricane season proved to be tumultuous, with three major hurricanes devastating the United States in less than 2?months. The challenges faced in Florida, in response to Hurricane Irma, precipitated best practices and lessons learned related to monitoring and reporting the status of transportation infrastructure, identifying temporary alternative solutions, and coordinating and communicating with emergency operations centers, state departments of transportation, and individual transit agencies. Sharing the lessons learned from recent firsthand experiences will undoubtedly improve the public transit industry’s emergency preparedness, response, and recovery activities.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198119835814
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/03611981
• Authors:
  • Godfrey, Jodi
  • Saliceto, Gennaro
  • Yegidis, Roberta
• Publication Date: 2019-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 230-239
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Volume: 2673
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0361-1981
  • EISSN: 2169-4052
  • Serial URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/trr

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Disaster preparedness; Disasters and emergency operations; Evacuation; Hurricanes; Lessons learned; Public transit; State departments of transportation; Transit operating agencies
• Identifier Terms: Florida Department of Transportation; Hurricane Irma
• Geographic Terms: Florida
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01699716
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 19-01280
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 25 2019 10:11AM