Public Transportation Emergency Mobilization and Emergency Operations Guide (2005) / Chapter Skim
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5-1 SECTION 5 SUPPORTING COMMUNITY EVACUATION Evacuation planning in the United States has been the responsibility of local and state emergency management and law enforcement agencies. Relatively little attention has been paid to full-scale evacuations that require the maximized and coordinated use of the entire transportation infrastructure available in a community or region.
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EVACUATION PLANNING Evacuation is one means of protecting the public from the effects of an emergency event. Protection is achieved by moving people away from the hazard.
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vide clear advice on how and when parents are to meet their children before the evacuation, and how evacuees can pickup older or sick relatives from designated care facilities. With respect to paratransit passengers, the local system probably should have in place an emergency plan for immediately contacting those passengers who have been delivered to initial destinations and determining what time they will be picked up.
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or a tornado, or as a precaution against escalation of an existing situation, such as flooding or heightened security threat levels. Some basic planning will be possible for these evacuations, which typically will focus on obtaining transportation to support people of age and people with disabilities and arranging for temporary shelters to be opened.
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ning agencies to provide specific support functions during these events. To this end, public transportation systems make a valuable contribution to the community evacuation capability, but often are not permitted to make evacuation-related decisions or to direct evacuation operations.
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reimbursement, and mutual aid, as well as disaster assistance from state and federal sources. Over the last few years, public transportation systems have developed procedures for coordinating with local emergency planning agencies about the impacts of evacuation on transportation operations.
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provisions must be included in their contracts for the payment of extraordinary transportation services such as evacuations. If a mass evacuation is required, private providers under contract with the public transportation system often are asked to provide extraordinary services, to which, as publicspirited companies, they immediately comply.
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useful for transportation systems evaluating their capabilities to support community evacuation.3 Relevant sections of that Brief are highlighted below. PLANNING AND PREPARATION • Will the agency participate in emergency responses?
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may not be separate from fire services)
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• Is a mutual-support agreement in place with community partners? Have the following issues been addressed: – The conditions under which the agreement is activated; – Who is authorized to activate the agreement; – Who controls deployed assets; – Who is responsible for support of deployed vehicles; – The terms of reimbursement; – Who is authorized to direct deployment of public transportation resources; and – Under what conditions and by whom are public transportation resources released at the end of the incident.
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• Can vehicle operators and other potential drivers be easily contacted? Employee phone numbers and addresses can change daily.
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in case the disaster prevents access to the primary reporting site. • Where will public transportation vehicle operators report?
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RESPONSE AND EVACUATION When an evacuation plan is activated, implement all of the prior planning, but remain flexible enough to respond to new situations as they arise. Attend to the following details: • Have drivers maintain separate evacuation logs, which will help with reimbursement and quantify the level of support provided.
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• As soon as possible, resume normal operations. Reestablishing a familiar routine is one of the best ways to calm operators and passengers after a crisis.
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