USCG: Marine Transportation System Recovery Unit (MTSRU)
Disaster Zone
MARCH 24, 2022
Understanding maritime disaster recovery process.
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Shanghai Lockdown Could Be the Start of More Supply Chain Challenges
DRI Drive
APRIL 14, 2022
With cases continuing to climb, disruptions and rising costs are extending out to the transportation […]. The post Shanghai Lockdown Could Be the Start of More Supply Chain Challenges appeared first on DRI Drive.
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‘You Can’t Make a Twinkie With Only 95% of Ingredients’: Supply Shortages Hit the Snack Food Aisle
DRI Drive
AUGUST 17, 2022
Major food manufacturers are running into major production snags, as key ingredients for big snack items are tied up in scheduling and transportation headaches. The supply chain strikes again!
Transportation for People with Disabilities
Recovery Diva
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
New report from the National Academy of Sciences: Transportation for People with Disabilities and Older Adults During COVID-19: Lessons for Emergency Response. It is a free download.
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Will the Russia-Ukraine War Cause Global Food Shortages? It’s Complicated
DRI Drive
MARCH 30, 2022
As the invasion of Ukraine continues, agricultural supply disruptions are impacting harvests and global fertilizer production are causing spikes in food prices, transportation and more. But can other countries provide relief? Both countries have suspended exports […].
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Are Your Supply Chain Anxieties Inviting Cybersecurity Threats?
DRI Drive
MARCH 30, 2023
Transportation companies – and the logistics and risk issues accompanying them – are in constant discussion in the business world. That’s why they’ve also become overwhelmingly common parts of phishing scams.
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Transporting Hazardous Materials--Which is Safer, Trains or Trucks?
Disaster Zone
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
If you are transporting petroleum products—pipelines is safer.
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EP17: Building My Own Online BIA App | Michelle Marx
The Failover Plan Podcast
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
We’re speaking with Michelle Marx, who is the Resilience and Business Continuity Manager at Transport for London. . She is currently the Resilience and Business Continuity Lead at Transport for London and has worked in the NHS, London Olympic Games Organization Committee (LOCOG) and in flood consultancy.
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Jobs: US Department of Transportation
Disaster Zone
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Be quick—September 16th is the deadline.
Transportation Worker Identity Credential: Reviving the Qualified Technology List With Simple Self-Certification Approval Process
Security Industry Association
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
The Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) is a biometric-enabled smart card identity credential that is issued to maritime workers to enable unescorted access into secure areas of maritime facilities and vessels regulated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Coast Guard.
Summer Olympics Preparedness: Cyberattacks and Heatwaves
DRI Drive
JUNE 14, 2024
A recent report identified several potential cyber vulnerabilities, particularly for hospitality, transportation, healthcare, and other companies providing services during the games. For Paris, that means preparing for cyber threats and protecting athletes and spectators from extreme weather.
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Which to Restore First? Communications or Transportation?
Disaster Zone
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
For earthquakes it can be different.
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How Transportation is Vital in Emergency Management and Business Continuity
CCEM Strategies
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Transportation plays a key and invaluable role for company operations and is a vital element of emergency management. The consequences suffered when transportation services and infrastructure are impacted by a disaster are far reaching. It provides the service that links companies to their suppliers, customers and employees.
Waste: The critical legacy of flooding
Crisis Response Journal
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
The growing importance of waste management is pushing society to consider it to be as vital as other CI sectors such as energy, and transportation, writes Lina Kolesnikova
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RAND's New President, the U.S. Foreign Service, Transportation Equity: RAND Weekly Recap
The Rand Blog
JUNE 10, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on RAND's next president and CEO, Jason Matheny, insights into Americans' views on diplomacy and diplomats, solutions for transportation equity, and more.
Prolonged, wide-area electrical power failure
Emergency Planning
MARCH 29, 2023
lifts [elevators] blocked: people possibly trapped in them trains stranded: people possibly stranded in them traffic control inoperable: possibility of accidents and queues at road junctions critical facilities (hospitals, police stations, etc.)
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GAO Recommendations to DHS- July 5
Recovery Diva
JULY 5, 2023
The recommendations relate to emergency preparedness, border and transportation security, infrastructure, cybersecurity and IT, chemical security, countering violent extremism, and domestic intelligence and information sharing. This letter to DHS outlines 42 open recommendations that it should prioritize.
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MHA Consulting Engaged by International Pioneer in Smart Transportation Technology Solutions
MHA Consulting
JANUARY 22, 2024
MHA Consulting is pleased to announce a new partnership with a global leader in smart transportation. The organization provides tech-led solutions to address transportation challenges in more than 15 countries worldwide.
Airline FUBAR in 2022
Disaster Zone
AUGUST 18, 2022
Airlines are a major component of our transportation system.
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Effects of Midwest Floods
Recovery Diva
JUNE 30, 2024
Transportation Systems , Weather-related disruptions can have catastrophic consequences for commuters and the supply chain. Transportation Systems From I nside Climate News: Midwest Floods, Widespread Heat Waves Are Undermining U.S. Midwest Floods, Widespread Heat Waves Are Undermining U.S.
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Wheeled MLRS Systems Going to Ukraine
Disaster Zone
JUNE 5, 2022
It is more transportable
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Disaster Zone
MAY 23, 2023
Another puzzle piece in maritime transportation.
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Actions Being Taken to Open Up the Supply Chain
Disaster Zone
OCTOBER 13, 2021
A focus on the transportation system.
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International call to stop violence and protect health-care
Crisis Response Journal
NOVEMBER 2, 2015
November 3, 2015: A joint statement signed by several international organisations, including the ICRC, IFRC and the World Medical Association, was issued today calling for an end to violence against health-care workers, medical transports and facilities.
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Road traffic collision claims 43 lives in France
Crisis Response Journal
OCTOBER 28, 2015
In the early hours of Friday, October 23, 2015, a traffic accident between a timber transportation truck and a coach carrying people caused 43 casualties, burned alive, including the three-year-old son of the truck driver, writes Editorial Advisory Panel By Christophe Libeau
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The real burden of risk
Emergency Planning
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
When I travel from north London to my university I use public transport, which is of variable reliability. Clearly, such a plan would be immediately invalidated by disruption to normal transportation schedules. I then have to cross a busy four-lane arterial road. I would have to resort to awareness and common sense.
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Economic Impact of Russia Sanctions
Fusion Risk Management
MARCH 8, 2022
The impact of this will be directly felt on consumers in the form of higher gas prices, larger costs to heat their homes, and greater costs for other types of transportation. For example, aircrafts that would normally transport goods by flying over Russian airspace will have to re-route and fly longer distances.
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Plan Your Ransomware Attack Response Now
BryghtPath
MARCH 14, 2022
A transportation authority. A food processing chain. A fuel pipeline system. A police department. These are some of the larger targets hit with ransomware attacks in the U.S. so far in 2021.
Hurricanes Have Become more Deadly for Socially Vulnerable People
Recovery Diva
AUGUST 23, 2023
This was likely in part due to lack of access to adequate short-term transportation, as well as inequitable access to financial resources, education, employment opportunities and timely warnings on tropical cyclone proximity, all of which are results of long-term institutional neglect.”
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Climate Change Will Transform How We Live, but These Tech and Policy Experts See Reason for Optimism
The Rand Blog
APRIL 18, 2022
To slow climate change and adapt to the damage already underway, the world will have to shift how it generates and uses energy, transports people and goods, designs buildings, and grows food. That starts with embracing innovation and change.
USPS Faces Another Crisis Communications Crunch
Bernstein Crisis Management
JUNE 29, 2021
Now, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has the unenviable task of explaining the agency’s latest plan; in short, to get ahead of a projected $160 billion deficit over the next decade by using less air transport and relying on its significant ground network instead.
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Foresight
Emergency Planning
APRIL 24, 2022
Everyday risk factors are different when floods, transportation crashes, landslides, toxic spills, structural collapses occur against a background of asymmetric warfare, armed insurgency, fighting or rampant terrorism. One question that is asked relatively rarely is why we exclude warfare from our definitions of disaster.
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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management
Recovery Diva
MAY 12, 2022
The chapter reviews recovery needs of older adults, those with Limited English Proficiency (LEP), children, and pregnant women, opportunities in housing, health, transportation, employment, and access to services. have examined the long-term recovery phase for individuals with disabilities” (p.
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Turbo Charging EDT for Unparalleled Experience in a Hybrid World
Citrix
APRIL 25, 2023
It’s been a while since I posted anything related to transport performance enhancements. But it’s not because we haven’t been working on improving our protocol; quite the contrary, we’ve been a little too focused on that work.
Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future
Emergency Planning
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Recently, I spoke to a senior emergency planner who has worked for years in the transportation and nuclear industries. In Florence, a consortium of 29 volunteer organisations includes specialists in medicine, transportation, radio communications, fire-fighting, logistics and hazardous materials response.
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Charging Up National Electrical Safety Month Around E-Mobility
National Fire Protection Association
MAY 1, 2023
E-bikes: The news story vs the full picture Electromobility, also known as e-mobility, uses specific technologies, such as lithium-ion batteries, to provide electric propulsion of electric vehicles, e-bikes, and various other means of mobile transportation.
7 Best Practices for Emergency Managers
everbridge
AUGUST 31, 2022
For example, this may include individuals who are seniors, have disabilities, have limited English proficiency, lack access to transportation, or lack financial resources. You’re able to also use the information from that to actually map out transportation routes, if they need transportation assistance.”
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New Course Coming Soon: Learn How to Apply for and Win Grants for Security Projects
Security Industry Association
OCTOBER 15, 2021
It will specifically focus on applicable grant programs in education, transportation and critical infrastructure sectors as identified by the U.S. Vertical Market Grant Programs : This module provides an overview of where to find agency logic models and how to tie to them. Department of Homeland Security.
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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario
Emergency Planning
MARCH 11, 2020
International Air Transport Association, Geneva, 14 pp. Thus, the vulnerability and fragility of people and society need to be seen in the light of socio-economic changes induced by the epidemic. Here is how I would classify the impacts and challenges. This is intended as the basis for possible scenarios of the outcome of the pandemic.
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Weathering the Storm: Tips for Coping with a Disrupted Climate
MHA Consulting
OCTOBER 12, 2023
The checklist should detail where and how the asset will be moved and any special provisions needed during transport and storage (such as heating or cooling). It is not enough to say, “If a wildfire approaches, move Asset A to a safe location.”
A Case for Promoting Infrastructure Equity for the Olympics
The Rand Blog
OCTOBER 16, 2023
A critical factor for successfully hosting will be for planners to ask hard questions early, so the community can collaborate with the organizing committee, informing its response to critical themes such as homes, health, transport, jobs, society, and culture.
Pure Announces NVMe/TCP, Another Step Towards the Cloud Operating Model
Pure Storage
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
NVMe/TCP delivers the same advantages as NVMe/FC and NVMe/RoCE: increased throughput and decreased latency, and benefiting from using Transport Control Protocol (TCP), which offers: Scalability: TCP supports widely available, easy-to-expand networks for growing needs.
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The Rand Blog
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Helicopters appear to be at the very heart of any Chinese strategy to conquer Taiwan, since they can provide both extensive air cover and firepower for amphibious forces coming ashore and provide transport capabilities to deliver forces further inland in a hypothetical Taiwan scenario.
Fine by Me: The Proposed $1 Million Fine of Colonial Pipeline
BCM METRICS
MAY 12, 2022
The Department of Transportation recently announced a proposed $1 million fine of Colonial Pipeline for shortcomings in its recovery planning that increased the societal damage in the wake of the cyberattack on the company last year.
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