TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 160: Paratransit Emergency Preparedness and Operations Handbook includes guidance, strategies, tools, and resources to help paratransit service providers plan and prepare for, respond to, and recover from a range of emergencies. The guidance has applicability to urban, suburban, rural, and tribal paratransit operating environments.
The project that developed TCRP Report 160 also a PowerPoint presentation describing the entire project.
An HTML version of the report is also available.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2013. Paratransit Emergency Preparedness and Operations Handbook. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/22669.
Chapters | skim | |
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Front Matter | i-vii | |
Summary | 1-5 | |
Chapter 1 - Introduction | 6-8 | |
Chapter 2 - Capabilities Assessment | 9-14 | |
Chapter 3 - Preparedness | 15-47 | |
Chapter 4 - Prevention | 48-58 | |
Chapter 5 - Response | 59-82 | |
Chapter 6 - Recovery | 83-94 | |
Appendix - Glossary and Acronyms | 95-102 |
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