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Transporting Hazardous Materials--Which is Safer, Trains or Trucks?

Disaster Zone

If you are transporting petroleum products—pipelines is safer.

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RAND's New President, the U.S. Foreign Service, Transportation Equity: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

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.

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Transportation Worker Identity Credential: Reviving the Qualified Technology List With Simple Self-Certification Approval Process

Security Industry Association

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.

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USCG: Marine Transportation System Recovery Unit (MTSRU)

Disaster Zone

Understanding maritime disaster recovery process.

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Are Your Supply Chain Anxieties Inviting Cybersecurity Threats?

DRI Drive

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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Shanghai Lockdown Could Be the Start of More Supply Chain Challenges

DRI Drive

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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Prolonged, wide-area electrical power failure

Emergency Planning

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.)