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1 NCHRP Report 753: A Pre-Event Recovery Planning Guide for Transportation (Guide) pro- vides an overview of what can be done to prepare for the recovery of transportation critical infrastructure prior to an event that impacts transportation systems. Guidance and effective practices from current experience and case studies are summarized to guide transportation owners and operators in their efforts to plan for recovery. The main audience for this document is transportation owners/operators and transportation planners and practitioners at the state and local levels. This Guide is intended to provide a single resource for understanding the principles and processes to be used for pre-event recovery planning for transportation infrastructure. In addition to the principles and processes, the Guide contains checklists, decision-support tools, and resources to support pre-event recovery planning. Chapter 1 provides a conceptual overview of recovery and the current state of recovery planning. The chapter highlights the need to pre-plan for recovery and demonstrates the benefits of doing so, with examples from recent catastrophic events that disrupted trans- portation systems. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the federal authorities that guide recovery including national strategies, executive orders, and presidential directives. Chapter 3 presents the principles of pre-event recovery planning, the overarching tenets identified through case studies and review of the literature of recovery. Chapter 4 presents lessons and effective practices derived from case studies conducted under NCHRP Project 20-59(33) and a review of existing transportation infrastructure recovery case studies. Chapter 5 provides guidance for the critical decisions and major tasks of pre-event recovery planning based on recovery âkeys to successââthe decisions, actions, and processes that can help expedite the overall recovery process. Checklists, decision-support tools, and other resources are included to support the recommended approaches. Chapter 6 provides a summary of recovery funding sources and includes a comparison of the primary federal recovery emergency funding programs for transportation infrastructure: FHWA Emergency Relief (ER) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Public Assistance (PA). Emergency recovery often brings together people who may not work together during non-emergency situations. Chapter 7 addresses what can be done prior to an event to improve communications and coordination during recovery. S u m m a r y A Pre-Event Recovery Planning Guide for Transportation
2 a Pre-Event recovery Planning Guide for Transportation Chapter 8 provides an overview of recovery management policies and practices that can help expedite recovery, including streamlining administration and accelerating the approval process. Additional information compiled by the NCHRP Project 20-59(33) research team is pro- vided in appendices. Appendix A provides a listing of tools and resources compiled by the research team that can assist in pre-event planning for recovery and post-event recovery. The tools and resources are organized by the key tasks and decisions of pre-event recovery. Checklists, worksheets, and online toolboxes are listed first, followed by guidance and resource documents. Appendix B provides the five in-depth case studies developed by the NCHRP Project 20-59(33) research team and an additional case study based on a few forward-looking jurisdictions that have instituted policies, programs, and tools that can assist in recovery. In Appendix C, the research team provides an overview of damage assessment and its impact on expediting recovery, and in Appendix D the team provides an overview of decontamina- tion techniques. Appendix E provides detailed information on recovery funding sources. Appendix F provides a glossary of common recovery-related terms.
