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1 A product of the research for NCHRP Project 20–59, Task 42, "A Guide to Regional Transportation Planning for Disasters, Emergencies, and Significant Events," NCHRP Report 777 has been developed to help transportation and non-transportation stakeholders, such as emergency managers and first responders, better understand transportation's important role in building resilient communities. Transportation planning for disasters and emergencies is essential to community readiness, response, and resilience for several important reasons: • Transportation links communities, counties, states, and countries.
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2 A Guide to Regional Transportation Planning for Disasters, Emergencies, and Significant Events disasters, emergencies, and significant events is a whole-community, multi-faceted, multijurisdictional planning effort that establishes a process that brings transportation considerations into the emergency planning cycle and brings emergency planning considerations into the transportation planning cycle. Emergency management organizations often head up the emergency planning and operations aspects of this work.
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