Transportation energy-contingency planning: a guide for transit operators

Technical Report · Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:6318197

This guide is designed to help transit operators assemble workable and effective contingency plans. Although it is written primarily for the operator who is developing a plan for the first time, it also provides practical guidance for refining or updating an existing plan. In addition to this introduction, the guide consists of two chapters that present practical guidelines to help plan for and manage a crisis under two different sets of circumstances. A step-by-step approach for developing a plan in advance of a crisis is outlined. In this best of all worlds, when ample time and resources are available for looking ahead to an energy shortage, Chapter II will help an operator develop a comprehensive plan for meeting the demands of a crisis situation. On the other hand, Chapter III is designed to help an operator cope with a planner's worst nightmare: A crisis has developed overnight and the operator is caught unawares with no plan for dealing with it. This chapter presents a bare-bones approach to crisis management and will be useful to those operators who have been unable to prepare a plan in advance.

• Research Organization: Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle-METRO, WA (USA); Metro Transit Energy Management Task Force, Seattle, WA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6318197
• Report Number(s): DOT-I-82-12; ON: DE83901792
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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