Surface Transportation Security: Volume 10, A Guide to Transportation's Role in Public Health Disasters

This tenth volume of NCHRP Report 525: "Surface Transportation Security" will assist transportation managers in the development of transportation response options to an extreme event involving chemical, biological, or radiological agents. The project is applicable to all civilian sites (not just transportation sites) and focuses on the effect and role of transportation during such an event. This report contains four products: (1) Technical information on chemical, biological, and radiological threats, including vulnerabilities of the transportation system to these agents and consequence-minimization actions that may be taken within the transportation system in response to events that involve these agents; (2) A spreadsheet tool, Tracking Emergency Response Effects on Transportation (TERET), structured to assist transportation managers with recognition of mass-care transportation needs and identification and mitigation of potential transportation-related criticalities in essential services during extreme events; (3) The User's Manual for TERET; and (4) A slide presentation (An Introduction to Biological, Chemical, and Radiological Threat Agents) with presenter notes in MS PowerPoint. These materials should be helpful to transportation agencies in creating or evaluating and modifying emergency response plans, policies, and procedures consistent with the National Incident Management System (NIMS).