Redundancy, the ability to activate backup systems in cases of system failure, is a major element in emergency response and recovery plans. The backup systems needed in a particular emergency will be…
The ability to communicate both internally and externally is a critical technological capability required in an emergency. During a crisis, the need to acquire situational awareness drastically…
Technology has come to play an increasingly crucial supporting role in aiding transportation decision makers during normal day-to-day operations and, more importantly, during times of crisis.…
The analysis of transportation operations during multi-agency response to catastrophic events nationwide offers some valuable lessons learned as presented below.
Conduct emergency transportation…
The analysis of transportation agencies' planning for response to emergencies in the event of catastrophes offers some lessons learned as presented below.
Create an emergency response plan to manage…
Methodology
Link-based traffic activities were fed into an emission model to estimate the total amount of human exposure to pollutant emissions generated by trucks. The estimated exposure value…