Session #9: FEMA’s Distribution Management Overview and Importance of Pacific Ports

Michael Legler Transportation Planner /Federal Emergency Management Agency

The scope, scale, and pace of disasters since 2017, and our responses to those events, continue to reinforce the fact that the nation has great capabilities and capacities to respond even in the worst circumstances.  The challenge is getting the right capability, to the right place, at the right time with the right enabling information for decision makers.  In the end, it’s all about transportation.