Abstract |
Understanding pandemics, their impacts to transportation, and
potential effective response has become more important, not only for the
response to COVID-19, but also if, as the World Health Organization
warns, we are now “living in a time of viruses.”
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program and Transit
Cooperative Research Program have jointly issued NCHRP Research Report
963/TCRP Research Report 225: A Pandemic Playbook for Transportation
Agencies, which was created to improve transportation agency responses
to a pandemic.
The Playbook concentrates on what needs to be done, when and by whom. It
briefly addresses planning for a pandemic, a topic addressed in greater
depth in NCHRP Report 769: A Guide for Public Transportation Pandemic
Planning and Response. It summarizes effective practices currently used
by transportation agencies based on interviews with state departments of
transportation and transit agency leaders and operational personnel,
supplemented with national and international research results. |