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The transportation community is engaged in all-hazards research, developing new systems, processes, and technologies to improve emergency management and homeland security, generating ready-to-use practice tools for responding to incidents that affect the transportation infrastructure--such as tornadoes, earthquakes, traffic accidents, and terrorist attacks. This is a brief introduction to the articles in this issue of TR News which offer a select--but wide-ranging--overview of transportation security, emergency management, and infrastructure protection.

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2007-5

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Disaster preparedness; Earthquakes; Emergency management; Infrastructure; National security; Protection; Security; Terrorism; Tornadoes; Traffic crashes

Administration and Management; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

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• Capabilities-Based Planning for the National Preparedness System
• Conceptualizing and Measuring Resilience: A Key to Disaster Loss Reduction
• Developing Guidance for Emergency Response Planning at the State Level
• Disaster Time Line: Major Focusing Events and U.S. Outcomes (1978-2006)
• Improving Resilience with Remote Sensing Technologies
• Professional Capacity Building for Transportation Security: Initiatives, Objectives, and Research Needs
• Restoring the National Response System: Fixing the Flaws Exposed by Hurricane Katrina
• Risk Management for Multimodal Transportation Infrastructure: Interactive Tool Nears Completion
• Sea-Based Emergency Response Planning: A Proven but Overlooked Strategy
• The Prague Subway's New Flood Protection System: Lessons from the Disaster of 2002
• Tools for Improving Evacuations: Federal Highway Administration Develops Primers and Training