FHWA is working with transportation agencies and their partners to improve planning and the use of technology in emergency transportation operations. These areas cover:

• Better regional and transportation operations planning with training and exercises
• Transportation agencies’ effective working relationships with other responders, including police, fire, emergency medical, public health, military, and intelligence agencies
• Use of smarter and more powerful tools to support updated evacuation models and prepare traffic response scenarios
• Transportation agencies’ understanding and readiness to work with other responders at the incident scene through the use of the ICS
• Extension of TIM programs to evacuation procedures
• Agencies’ identification of critical information technology resources, assessment of the risks, and identification and implementation of counter measures
• How to protect communications networks and TMCs
• Agencies’ prioritization and implementation of intelligent infrastructure along critical evacuation routes
• Understanding and implementation of agency communications systems that are compatible with other modes and other responders.