Transit system resilience : development efforts and challenges / Kayla Hodges, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hodges, Kayla, editor.

Series:

Transportation infrastructure : roads, highways, bridges, airports and mass transit series.

Transportation Infrastructure - Roads, Highways, Bridges, Airports and Mass Transit

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Local transit--United States--Management.

Local transit.

Emergency management--United States.

Emergency management.

Organizational resilience--United States.

Organizational resilience.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (77 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Novinka, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Public transit systems, which receive funding from the federal government, are vulnerable to catastrophic events, as demonstrated by the impact Hurricane Sandy and other events have had on transit systems. These events highlight our reliance on transit systems for access to jobs, medical care, and other services, as well as the cost of recovering from these events. Building resilience-the ability to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the risk of catastrophic events-is one strategy to help limit the nation's fiscal exposure to catastrophic events. This book examines how DHS and

Contents:

""TRANSIT SYSTEM RESILIENCE: DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS AND CHALLENGES""; ""TRANSIT SYSTEM RESILIENCE: DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS AND CHALLENGES""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Chapter 1: PUBLIC TRANSIT: FEDERAL AND TRANSIT AGENCIES TAKING STEPS TO BUILD TRANSIT SYSTEMS�RESILIENCE BUT FACE CHALLENGES""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY""; ""WHAT GAO FOUND""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""DHS AND DOT ASSISTANCE CAN CONTRIBUTE TOTRANSIT SYSTEM RESILIENCE; HOWEVER, SOMELIMITATIONS EXIST""

""SELECTED TRANSIT AGENCIES TAKE A VARIETY OFACTIONS TO MAKE THEIR TRANSIT SYSTEMS RESILIENT""""TRANSIT AGENCIES FACE CHALLENGES IN PLACINGPRIORITY ON RESILIENCE AND WITH CERTAIN ASPECTSOF SOME FEDERAL GRANTS""; ""CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS""; ""AGENCY COMMENTS""; ""APPENDIX I: OBJECTIVES, SCOPE,AND METHODOLOGY""; ""Chapter 2: EMERGENCY TRANSPORTATION RELIEF: AGENCIES COULD IMPROVE COLLABORATION BEGUN DURING HURRICANE SANDY RESPONSE""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY""; ""WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS""; ""WHAT GAO FOUND""; ""BACKGROUND""

""FTA HAS ALLOCATED OVER HALF OF DOT�S DRAAFUNDS WHILE SETTING UP THE PUBLICTRANSPORTATION EMERGENCY RELIEF PROGRAM""""FTA�S RELIEF PROGRAM IS MORE FLEXIBLE THANFEMA�S AND FHWA�S BUT HAS NOT RECEIVEDONGOING FUNDING""; ""FTA AND FEMA HAVE LIMITED ABILITY TO ASSIGNRESPONSIBILITIES IN THEIR MEMORANDUM OFAGREEMENT BUT COULD DO MORE TO ENSUREEFFECTIVE COLLABORATION""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""RECOMMENDATION FOR EXECUTIVE ACTION""; ""AGENCY COMMENTS""; ""APPENDIX I: OBJECTIVES, SCOPE, AND METHODOLOGY""; ""INDEX""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 26, 2015).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-63482-568-3

OCLC:

911266387