A Pandemic Playbook for Transportation Agencies

Understanding pandemics, their impacts to transportation, and potential effective response has become more important, not only for the response to COVID-19, but also if, as the World Health Organization warns, we are now “living in a time of viruses.” TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program and Transit Cooperative Research Program have jointly issued this report, which was created as a practical guide for managing a transportation agency's responses to a pandemic. The Playbook concentrates on what needs to be done, when and by whom. It briefly addresses planning for a pandemic. It summarizes effective practices currently used by transportation agencies based on interviews with state departments of transportation and transit agency leaders and operational personnel, supplemented with national and international research results. After an introductory chapter, chapters address: key questions; key players and agencies; challenges; emergency management plays; and conclusions.

• Record URL:
  http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/182018.aspx
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780309673884
• Authors:
  • Matherly, Deborah
  • Bye, Patricia
  • Benini, Janet
• Publication Date: 2021

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Photos; Tables;
• Pagination: 78 p
• Serial:
  • NCHRP-TCRP Research Report
  • Issue Number: NCHRP 963; TCRP 225
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communicable diseases; COVID-19; Disaster resilience; Emergency management; Employee relations; Public health; Transit operating agencies; Transportation departments; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Security and Emergencies; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01757819
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309673884
• Report/Paper Numbers: NCHRP Project 20-116, TCRP Project A-36
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Nov 16 2020 3:00PM