The National Academies defines resilience as “the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, respond, recover from, and more successfully adapt to adverse events.” Experience from a range of natural and man-made disasters over the past two decades has highlighted the critical roles transportation systems play during times of emergency and how important robust and functioning transportation systems are to community resilience. Since 2005, researchers at the Voorhees Transportation Center have been working with New Jersey State Police, Office of Emergency Management; New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness; New Jersey Department of Transportation; NJ TRANSIT; county offices of emergency management; and other agencies and authorities to understand transportation system vulnerabilities and to ensure transportation agencies are prepared for and can recover more quickly from emergency events and disasters.
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