TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web Only Document 70: Improving the Resilience of Transit Systems Threatened by Natural Disasters, Volume 1: A Guide offers practices for transit systems of all sizes to absorb the impacts of disaster, recover quickly, and return rapidly to providing the services that customers rely on to meet their travel needs. The report shows how to identify and implement appropriate resilience strategies to strengthen operations and infrastructure throughout an agency. It explores ways that agencies can become more resilient through incremental adjustments in planning and small changes in what they do every day. The guide also shows how to identify critical transit-related interdependencies and engage in broader regional resilience efforts. The guide is accompanied by Volume 2: Research Overview, Volume 3: Literature Review and Case Studies, and a database called resilienttransit.org to help practitioners search for and identify tools to help plan for natural disasters.
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TRB hosted a webinar that discusses the research on March 12, 2018. A recording is available.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Improving the Resilience of Transit Systems Threatened by Natural Disasters, Volume 1: A Guide. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/24973.
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Front Matter | i-xix | |
Chapter 1 What Is Transit System Resilience? | 1-21 | |
Chapter 2 Chart Your Agency s Path to Resilience | 22-72 | |
Chapter 3 Reinforce Your Agency s Regional Interdependencies | 73-107 | |
Chapter 4 Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources | 108-141 | |
References | 142-143 |
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