Civil Engineering Association

A Guide to Emergency Quarantine and Isolation Controls of Roads in Rural Areas

This document contains an annotated bibliography that reviews several state emergency response plans associated with traffic control of rural roads in an agricultural emergency; a summary of the information gathered from interviews with state and local officials involved in agricultural emergency response; lessons learned from the case studies, the literature review, and phone interviews with state and local officials; a discussion of the development of the guide along with a taxonomy of the existing general procedures for handling an agricultural emergency; and a review of this guide by state and local officials, including the one-day workshops in four rural counties. The material contained in this document was used to help produce NCHRP Report 525, Volume 13: A Guide to Traffic Control of Rural Roads in an Agricultural Emergency, which explores recommended practices and procedures associated with traffic control on local and state roads during agricultural emergencies.