A Pandemic Playbook for Transportation Agencies
Understanding pandemics, their impacts to transportation, and potential effective response has become
more important, not only for the response to COVID-19, but also if, as the World Health Organization warns,
we are now “living in a time of viruses.”
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program and Transit Cooperative Research Program have jointly issued
NCHRP Research Report 963/TCRP Research Report 225:
A Pandemic Playbook for Transportation Agencies, which
was created to improve transportation agency responses to a pandemic.
The Playbook
concentrates on what needs to be done, when and by whom. It briefly addresses planning for a
pandemic, a topic addressed in greater depth in
NCHRP Report 769: A Guide for Public Transportation Pandemic Planning and Response. It summarizes effective practices currently used
by transportation agencies based on interviews with state departments of transportation and transit
agency leaders and operational personnel, supplemented with national and international research results.
This Summary Last Modified On: 4/7/2021