Connecting Communities Public Transportation Emergency Preparedness
Workshop
October 28-29, 2008
Philadelphia/Montgomery County, PA Region
Montgomery County Fire Academy
1175 Conshohocken Road
Conshohocken, PA
Connecting Communities Public Transportation Emergency Preparedness Workshop is
designed to coordinate the assets and specialized resources of transit and
transportation systems with their local, county, and state response and
emergency management agencies. Interoperability and maximum resource utilization
in the event of a natural disaster, terrorist incident, or other emergency is of
the utmost importance for a community or region’s effective response.
The Connecting Communities Workshop for those in the Philadelphia/Montgomery
County PA area will be held at the Montgomery County Fire Academy located at
1175 Conshohocken Road Conshohocken PA The workshop is free to all invitees,
with morning coffee and lunch included. Registration begins at 8:00am. The
program will commence promptly at 8:30am and conclude at 4:30pm each day.
The goal of the Connecting Communities Workshop is to bring together
participants from a variety of agencies, departments, and organizations to
foster dialogue, progress planning efforts, review past experiences, analyze
best practices, and identify assets and resources to improve overall
interoperability and response during an incident. Based on the framework of the
National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the four phases of the Emergency
Management Process, the Connecting Communities Workshops combine instructor-lead
presentations with interactive exercises and small-group activities to help
participants assess the strengths and weaknesses in their existing plans and
identify steps to improve the community’s or region’s preparedness.
If you would like to attend this workshop, please complete and submit
this application form.
For more information about this program, please contact: Christopher Kozub
732-261-4170 or ckozub@rci.rutgers.edu
Fran Conti 732-932-1700 or
fconti@rci.rutgers.edu
This workshop is designed to improve public agency interoperability
during incidents by fostering dialogue and planning efforts between
transit systems, emergency service agencies and other emergency
management partners, in a structurally formatted forum. Invited
participants include representatives from local transit agencies,
police departments, emergency management offices and others.