6.10 Transportation Emergency Response Checklist
The Institute of Transportation Engineers has published a Transportation Emergency Response Checklist. The categories include emergency transportation plans, inter-jurisdictional and intermodal cooperation, training preparedness, and transportation system. The checklist is summarized as follows:
- Develop an emergency transportation plan
- Make sure transportation is working hand-in-hand with emergency managers and law enforcement
- Conduct “table-top” exercises, practice a wide range of scenarios, and ensure that transportation managers are full participants
- Ensure transportation responders are technically prepared: training, communication interoperability, and use of modeling tools
- Be prepared to use the full capability of the transportation system for response and recovery: use freeway and arterial management (integrate information with Emergency Operations Center; update timing signals and coordinate with adjacent jurisdictions; use cameras, radios, Web sites, message signs, and highway advisory radio)
Transportation for Emergency Response and Recovery
February 7, 2006
Publication #FHWA–HOP-08-015
