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Hazardous materials emergency response preparedness is perceived by the public as inadequate, attributed in part to the lack of consolidated information. The objective of this thesis is to investigate this position by conducting an assessment of U.S. hazardous materials emergency response preparedness. The study focused on the role of public emergency response in hazardous materials risk management in the United States, the preparedness of emergency responders to minimize the effects of hazardous materials incidents, and the effectiveness of hazardous materials emergency response in the context of risk management based on empirical analysis. A 1993-1994 survey database is analyzed to identify current public hazardous materials emergency response competencies. Emergency Response Notification System data from 1986 to 1994 are used to characterize response needs. It is concluded that Federal initiatives have succeeded in consolidating statistical reporting, and appear to have effectively: (1) addressed the accident and release prevention segments of hazardous materials risk management, and (2) reduced the consequences of hazardous materials releases through improved hazardous materials emergency response (implied by the significant reduction in notification times and increased response team competencies).

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In 1994 and 1995, Mr. Parker filled more than 300 requests for complimentary copies of this report as a thank you for the cooperation received in filling out the surveys. As demand for copies has continued well beyond the dawn of the World Wide Web in 1995, the original document has been published to make it widely available through commercial channels. From 1995 to 2000, Mr. Parker developed Intelligent Transportation Systems courses and ran the NTI Fellows program for the Advanced Technologies and Innovative Practices section at the National Transit Institute at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He earned a BS in Speech from Northwestern University and an MS in Interdisciplinary Studies: Civil Engineering and Management of Technology from Vanderbilt University. Mr. Parker is author of An Assessment of U.S. Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Preparedness (MS thesis, Vanderbilt University, 1994) and co-author of Technical and Sociopolitical Issues in Radioactive Waste Disposal, 1986 (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1987). He served as Scholar Associate for a Review of the Department of Homeland Security's Approach to Risk Analysis (National Academy of Sciences, 2010). As the Administrator for the Joint Powers Transportation Board of the Town of Jackson and Teton County, he served as the general manager for the START Bus transit system in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and was founding vice-president of WYTRANS, the Wyoming Public Transit Association. In 2010, Mr. Parker began developing the business case for Better-Drivers-remote piloting of vehicles by qualified operators. Presentations: (1) 2013 National Rural Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, St. Cloud, Minnesota; (2) 2013 American Public Transportation Association's TransITech Conference, Phoenix, Arizona; (3) 2012 Intelligent Transportation Systems World Congress, Vienna, Austria. In 2016, Mr. Parker's opera received its world premiere at the Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint in Washington, DC. A Roadkill Opera tells the story of the hour before the lights go up on opening night for a comedy improv troupe in 1988 Jackson Hole, Wyoming: the Roadkill On A Stick Frozen Foods Theatre Company. During that hour, they find out their showroom at the Silver Dollar Bar is being torn down. This original story and English libretto by Parker is set to music by Ferdinando Paer, Beethoven's direct competitor. 59 minutes (in English). The studio recording is available everywhere.

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