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Emergency Transportation OperationsMISSIONGood Incident and Emergency Highway Plans and Practices Save Lives, Safeguard Citizens and Improve Mobility. WHAT'S NEW IN ETOPlanned Special Events: Cost Management and Cost Recovery Primer Evacuating Populations With Special Needs - Routes to Effective Evacuation Planning Primer Series EVACUATIONS IN THE NEWSEvacuation operations occur daily throughout the Nation. Local jurisdictions manage evacuations, whether a solitary building with 25 to 50 residents, a neighborhood or an entire city. Evacuation expertise lies with local authorities. To demonstrate that evacuations constitute daily emergency operations, FHWA offers a weekly summary of where events occur to aid in further research or peer-to-peer exchanges. We invite you to search this web site for more on evacuation planning and operations. DID YOU KNOW?…In a five-year study conducted in North Carolina, 1,300 abandoned vehicles were struck, resulting in 47 fatality crashes and over 500 injuries. Source: Traffic Incident Management Quick Clearance Laws: A National Review of Best Practices The Office of Operations welcomes you to the Emergency Transportation Operations (ETO) home page, featuring information on the ETO for Disasters, Traffic Planning for Special Events (PSE) and Traffic Incident Management (TIM) programs. FHWA, through the ETO programs, provides tools, guidance, capacity building and good practices that aid local and State DOTs and their partners in their efforts to improve transportation network efficiency and public/responder safety when a non-recurring event either interrupts or overwhelms transportation operations. Non-recurring events may range from traffic incidents to traffic Planning for Special Event (PSE) to disaster or emergency transportation operations (Disaster ETO). Work in ETO program areas focuses on using highway operational tools to enhance mobility and motorist and responder safety. Partnerships in ETO program areas involve non-traditional transportation stakeholders since ETO programs involve transportation, public safety (fire, rescue, emergency medical service [EMS]), law enforcement) and emergency management communities. ETO, as a discipline, spans a full range of activities: from transportation-centric (fender benders) to those where transportation is a critical response component (e.g., hurricane evacuations). The Emergency Transportation Operations Web site uses National Incident Management System or NIMS categories to functionally organize its content. The categories - listed on the left - provide specific information as it pertains to Disaster ETO, PSE and/or TIM. The table, below, illustrates how to use the functional areas to identify products or information relevant to one or more of the ETO programs. Items in the matrix are only representative of the materials to be found in that section:
Though FHWA's three ETO programs have distinct characteristics, the interrelationships among these three are also very evident. From an institutional perspective, all three programs depend on good regional relationships and all three work with the same non-traditional transportation partners to ensure effective TIM, PSE and Disaster ETO operations in local and regional communities. Comments and SuggestionsWe welcome all comments and suggestions. Please address your comments and suggestions to ETO@dot.gov. |
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