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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.

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. A Pandemic Playbook for Transportation Agencies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26145.

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86 pages |  8.5 x 11 |  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/26145
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Front Matter i-x
Summary 1-3
Chapter 1 - Introduction 4-8
Chapter 2 - Key Questions to Ask 9-11
Chapter 3 - Key Players and Agencies 12-13
Chapter 4 - Challenges 14-17
Chapter 5 - Emergency Management Plays: Approaches and Solutions 18-56
Chapter 6 - Conclusions 57-58
Acronyms 59-59
Endnotes 60-63
Appendix A - Pandemic Playbook Interviewee List 64-65
Appendix B - Emergency Support Functions 66-67
Appendix C - Incident Command System Incident Action Plan 68-69
Appendix D - Preliminary Results of Quick Response Grants 70-72
Appendix E - Pandemic Playbook Resources 73-78

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