Well, for a more heroic and cool sounding story, once the outbreak starts, I would start to patiently wait for my city to be infected. It sounds crazy, but If everything is planned right, the city I will be roaming will have many buildings connected by skylines, tunnels, and other forms that if barricaded, would keep me completely safe from the zombie menace.
From there, I would become the Father Grigori of the city, mindlessly killing zombies, and helping other survivors while sounding crazy.
However, to be realistic, my actual survival plan would probably go more like this. Once the news of the outbreak begins, rather than panic and frenzy, stay in contact with everyone I know. From there, track where the source is. If it is East, move West. If it's South, go North. That whole kind of thing. From there, hope I can stay on the move and find the remains of the government, and pray that they are helping out refugees. If not, then it's off to a secluded island with a source of food and water.

The "Tools" that I would carry would be light and efficient, as my plan isn't to stay in one spot, or go on a killing spree. So probably for melee, i'm still packing a crowbar. As for a small firearm, taking advice from the Doctor, I would carry around a Glock of some sorts.

And to stay mobile, probably a motorized bike. Knowing there will be traffic in every way possible, a bike would allow to possibly maneuver around the traffic and still get to whatever destination needed.
It's always fun talking about this, yet I will admit it's pretty terrifying to think about it actually happening.