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TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Legal Research Digest 44: Legal Issues in Public Transit Emergency Planning and Operation synthesizes and assesses laws, regulations, and guidance from the transit and homeland security industries as a means to help transit agencies better understand their legal responsibilities with respect to emergency planning and operational issues. One of the goals of the report is to help transit systems remain in compliance with emergency planning and operations requirements and guidance.

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2013. Legal Issues in Public Transit Emergency Planning and Operation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/22447.

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71 pages |  8.5 x 11 |  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/22447
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Legal Research Digest 44 1-1
CONTENTS 2-2
I. INTRODUCTION 3-3
II. TRANSIT EMERGENCY PLANNING FOUNDATIONS 4-19
III. TRANSIT EMERGENCY PLANNING PRACTICE GUIDE 20-53
IV. CONCLUSION 54-54
Appendix A: NRF Emergency Support Functions and Lead Agencies 55-55
Appendix B: APTA Sample Public Transit Mutual Aid Assistance Agreement 56-59
Appendix C: Transit Drill and Exercise Evaluation Criteria Sample 60-63
Appendix D: Emergency Operations Plan Sample 64-67
Appendix E: Acronyms 68-70
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 71-76

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