Best Practices for Emergency Rerouting : Research and Findings Manual

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• Corporate Creators:
  Kimley-Horn and Associates
• Corporate Contributors:
  Cambridge Systematics
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Best practices
  • Disasters and emergency operations
  • Emergencies
  • Emergency management
  • Emergency communication systems
  • Incident management
  • Signs
  • Communication devices
  • Emergency Reroutes
  • Incident Management
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• Resource Type:
  Booklet/Pamphlet
• Geographical Coverage:
  Michigan
• Corporate Publisher:
  Michigan. Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  Michigan is a geographically diverse state with some metropolitan or urban centers and vast rural areas ; that attract recreational and tourist activities. Each of the State’s seven MDOT regions present unique ; incident management challenges as well as a broad range of impacts to traffic flow during planned and ; unplanned events. In an effort to provide a framework that can address these traffic flow challenges ; during freeway road closures the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) identified the need for ; a manual to document a consistent statewide strategy for emergency rerouting identification for reference ; by all regions in Michigan. A few MDOT regions currently have emergency rerouting plans in place; ; however, some of the existing plans have not been reviewed or revised since they were originally ; developed. There are few standard processes for defining and documenting emergency alternate routes. A ; statewide manual would help support regions in updating or establishing a documented set of practices for ; maintaining emergency rerouting plans. ; MDOT identified a desire to research different practices other states are using for emergency reroute ; planning to identify strong examples for reference. The research effort was intended to combine feedback ; from Michigan stakeholders with the key findings, lessons learned, and experiences from other states to ; create a standard, statewide practice for developing emergency reroutes. The manual is a tool ; summarizing recommendations that stakeholders can take forward during the development and ; implementation of emergency reroutes on a regional level. With the diversity of Michigan’s regions, it ; was recognized that a “one size fits all” approach would not be feasible; rather, regions would need to ; adapt emergency rerouting plans to the specific agencies, partnerships, and roadway networks within their ; respective regions. ; It is important for the user to understand the assumptions surrounding the use of this document. The ; following summarizes the understanding of the intent behind the development of this manual.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/25175/dot_25175_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.28 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:81f8d87cd59e718dc819c09428b0ebc6c1ec79e2619e54350059680926cf21c3