Emergency Response: Organizational and Operational Models Used by State DOTs

The objective of this project was to investigate and document how state DOTs use different organizational and operational models to fulfill their emergency response incident/event management responsibilities within the context of the National Planning Frameworks (NPF): prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery. This includes management of and transition between: (1) frequently occurring, short duration incidents with minimal impact (typically covered in Traffic Incident Management); (2) occasionally occurring, long duration, significant transportation incidents, typically involving some level of activation of the state DOT’s Incident Command System (ICS) structure or emergency operations center; and (3) infrequently occurring, long duration, large scale emergencies involving state DOT participation in multi-agency response (i.e., invoking emergency support functions (ESFs)). For these three scenarios, areas of focus for this project include how state DOTs: are internally organized in general and for emergency response; understand, assign, and execute their responsibilities and authorities for emergency response; coordinate with emergency management agencies, transportation agencies, and others; staff with dedicated and surge capacity employees for their emergency management functions; bring in outside resources (including mutual aid and contract staff); access funding and potential funding sources (ongoing and grants); and manage training and exercises (internal and external).

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=4773

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $400000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 20-128

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Project Managers:

  Parker, Stephan

• Performing Organizations:

  WSP USA

  One Penn Plaza
  250 W 34th Street
  New York, New York  United States  10119
• Principal Investigators:

  Matherly, Deborah

• Start Date: 20210201
• Expected Completion Date: 20230301
• Actual Completion Date: 20230301

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Case studies; Crisis management; Disaster resilience; Disasters and emergency operations; Organization; State departments of transportation; Surveys
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01707629
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 20-128
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Jun 6 2019 4:41PM