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TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Legal Research Digest 50: Public Transit Emergency Preparedness Against Ebola and Other Infectious Diseases: Legal Issues examines responses to infectious disease epidemics and identifies legal issues that may be confronted by transit agencies. It considers federal and state laws and available court decisions affecting transit agencies’ responses to infectious disease outbreaks, including potential cohesiveness among transit agencies’ procedures and federal and state guidance. The digest also examines the legal basis for the protocols that public transit agencies and other transportation providers such as airlines have planned or implemented to respond to epidemics and pandemics. This report builds upon the 2014 NCHRP Report 769: A Guide for Public Transportation Pandemic Planning and Response.

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Public Transit Emergency Preparedness Against Ebola and Other Infectious Diseases: Legal Issues. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/24795.

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8.5 x 11 |  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/24795

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