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A Guide to Configuration Management for Intelligent Transportation Systems

This monograph is one of a series intended to introduce the topic of systems engineering to managers and staff working on transportation systems projects, with particular emphasis on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) projects. Systems engineering is a discipline that has been used for over 5
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A Guide to Emergency Response Planning at State Transportation Agencies

A Guide for use by state transportation agencies in planning and developing their organizational functions, roles, and responsibilities for emergency response within the all-hazards NIMS context. This report replaces a 2002 document, "A Guide to Updating Highway Emergency Response Plans for Terroris
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A Guide to Planning Resources on Transportation and Hazards

Security-related research and resources, and an introduction to interdisciplinary research and applications undertaken by the hazards research community
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A Guide to Public Transportation Security Resources

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Results Digest 59: A Guide to Public Transportation Security Resources provides a listing of available (or soon-to-be-available) security resources, which can be obtained from public transportation systems, organizations, associations, in

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A Guide to Regional Transportation Planning for Disasters, Emergencies, and Significant Events

A Guide to the principles and resources for facilitating regional transportation planning, coordination, and operations across all modes for disasters, emergencies, and significant events
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A Guide to Traffic Control of Rural Roads in an Agricultural Emergency

Recommended practices and procedures for emergency quarantine and isolation controls for local and state roads with minimal resources typical for a rural region.
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A Guide to Transportation's Role in Public Health Disasters

Technical information on chemical, biological, and radiological threats; vulnerabilities of the transportation system to these agents; consequence-minimization actions that may be taken. Includes a software tool, user’s guide, and executive briefing slides
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A Guidebook on Transit-Supportive Roadway Strategies

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has released a pre-publication, non-edited version of Report 183: A Guidebook on Transit-Supportive Roadway Strategies as a resource for transit and roadway agency staff seeking to improve bus speed and reliability on surface streets while address

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A National Traffic Incident Management Training Course for Incident Responders and Managers

Traffic incidents cause 25 percent of delay on highways (1). These incidents can be dangerous for responders. From 2010 through 2012, at least 10 firefighters (2, 3, 4), 4 paramedics (5, 6, 7), and 7 law enforcement personnel (8) died after being struck by vehicles while responding to incidents.

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A New Approach to Improving Travel Times

Congestion is a persistent problem on U.S. highways, stealing an average of 38 hours a year from commuters. Snarled traffic not only increases travel times but also has an adverse effect on motorists’ safety and costs to travelers and businesses. Facing this challenge with increasingly constraine

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