Continuity of Operations (COOP) Planning Guidelines for Transportation Agencies

Boyd, Annabelle; Caton, Jim; Singleton, Anne; Bromley, Peter; Yorks, Chuck

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

Matherly¹,

Langdon²,

Wolshon³

et al. 2014

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This report documents the study process and key findings that resulted in the Guide to Regional Transportation Planning for Disasters, Emergencies, and Significant Events. The project research included a literature review, survey, interviews and webinars. The Guide's purpose is to help transportation and non-transportation stakeholders, such as emergency managers and first responders, better understand transportation's important role in building resilient communities. The research discovered multijurisdictional transportation planning for disasters, emergencies, and significant events taking place in many locations across the country, in many different institutional frameworks. Such planning shares precepts of communication and collaboration, supported by eight basic principles that enable communities to better recover after a major disruption. Effective planning is comprehensive, cooperative, informative, coordinated, inclusive, exercised, flexible and continuous. By using principles that are shared by multiple sectors, the Guide provides linkages between transportation planning processes, which primarily center on mobility as expressed in infrastructure, equipment and operations, and emergency management planning processes, which aim at mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery. The Guide has an Introduction and four sections: Principles (including characteristics, strategies, and examples); Case Studies from diverse geographic regions and settings; Tools including checklists and discussion guides; and Additional Resources: glossary and annotated list of resources.

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

Matherly¹,

Langdon²,

Wolshon³

et al. 2014

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Integrating Business Continuity and TDM Measures to Ensure Regional Emergency Preparedness and Mobility

Mongioi¹,

McNally²,

Thompson³

2009

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Respecting, Enabling, and Involving All Personnel in a Sustainable Continuity of Operations Plan

West¹,

Miller²,

Zdunek³

et al. 2007

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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This paper describes implementation of a local government continuity of operations plan and pandemic influenza appendix through the first plan–train–exercise cycle. The potential for pandemic influenza was addressed by the Bernalillo County Public Works Division, New Mexico, as part of an all-hazards approach in continuity of operations planning. The continuity of operations planning process typically emphasizes loss of use of facilities. A pandemic scenario based on the 1918 influenza is used to determine whether adequate staff will be available to ensure that essential functions are performed. Staff reduction during an emergency requires difficult choices among what is “essential.” It also requires redefinition of each member of the staff as currently or potentially providing an essential function. The paper describes how all personnel are involved in the continuity of operations plan. “All personnel” in this agency involves more than 200 employees with diverse job descriptions and skills. All personnel include political appointees, janitorial staff, civil engineers, field technicians, and clerical staff. Each person is considered an essential employee. Respect for each individual as an essential employee was demonstrated by enabling and involving each employee. Human factors addressed during the process included communication to ensure that all staff were informed, education to ensure that all staff could be trained, and organization to ensure that all staff were part of a team. The result of the approach is a near-term capability to maintain essential functions during a pandemic influenza. The effort also supports long-term, all-hazards local government capacity to maintain essential functions.

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Continuity of Operations (COOP) Planning Guidelines for Transportation Agencies

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

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

Integrating Business Continuity and TDM Measures to Ensure Regional Emergency Preparedness and Mobility

Respecting, Enabling, and Involving All Personnel in a Sustainable Continuity of Operations Plan

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