Preparation & Planning: Transportation Industry Stakeholders

If you are an owner or manager of a private company specializing in transportation services, assets, systems, or infrastructure, you play a critical role in transportation recovery after a disaster has struck your community. Transportation industry stakeholders or special districts own a large percentage of America’s transportation network assets—airports, ports, pipelines, and surface transportation (public transit, highways, commuter and freight rail, trucking and bus lines, and bicycle and pedestrian paths)—so your resources, expertise, and planning will contribute significantly to the recovery process. While the government facilitates transportation recovery operations, your company is ultimately responsible for the recovery of your own transportation service, asset, system, or infrastructure.

Your role is vital to the effective, safe, and timely recovery and restoration of the transportation system or infrastructure for which you are responsible, and your local community will be depending on you to deliver. Good planning and coordination now will lead to a faster and more efficient recovery later.

You can mitigate transportation recovery challenges through effective continuity of operations (COOP) planning and by collaborating with others involved in long-term transportation and community recovery. The following sections describe some steps you should consider taking before a disaster hits to mitigate potential consequences.

Learn about transportation industry stakeholders’ role in transportation recovery.