Transportation Resilience: Adaptation to Climate Change (2016)

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83 APPENDIX E Program transPortation resilienCe: adaPtation to Climate Change and extreme weather events Fourth EU–U.S. Transportation Research Symposium Organized by the European Commission U.S. Department of Transportation Transportation Research Board June 16–17, 2016 THON Hotel Brussels City Center Brussels, Belgium thursday, june 16, 2016 8:30 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks by the Organizers of the Symposium Clara de la Torre, European Commission Kevin Womack, U.S. Department of Transportation Neil Pedersen, Transportation Research Board 9:00 a.m. Opening Plenary Session Alan McKinnon, Chair Richard Wright, Cochair, presiding Keynote Presentation 1 Jan Hendrik Dronkers, Rijkswaterstaat Keynote Presentation 2 Donald Wuebbles, Executive Office of the President of the United States White Paper Presentation H. Gerry Schwartz, Consultant Lori Tavasszy, Delft University of Technology and TNO Delft 10:30 a.m. Networking Break

84 t r a n s p o r t a t i o n r e s i l i e n c e 11:00 a.m. Plenary Session 2: Preparing for a Climate Impact—Sea Level Rise Presentation of First Case Scenario: Sea Level Rise Gordana Petkovic, Norwegian Public Roads Administration Rebecca Lupes, U.S. Department of Transportation 11:30 a.m. Breakout Session 1: Preparing for a Climate Impact—Sea Level Rise 1:00 p.m. Lunch 2:00 p.m. Plenary Session 3: Feedback from Breakout Session 1 2:45 p.m. Plenary Session 4: Minimizing Disruption During Extreme Weather Events Presentation of Second Case Scenario: Severe Storm and Flooding Jennifer Jacobs, University of New Hampshire André van Lammeren, Rijkswaterstaat 3:15 p.m. Breakout Session 2: Minimizing Disruption During Extreme Weather Events 5:00 p.m. Plenary Session 5: Feedback from Breakout Session 2 5:45 p.m. Wrap-Up Day 1 6:00 p.m. Cocktail Reception friday, june 17, 2016 8:30 a.m. Welcome Coffee 9:00 a.m. Plenary Session 6: Welcome 9:15 a.m. Plenary Session 7: Recovering from a Weather-Related Transport Disruption Presentation of Third Case Scenario: Drought, Heat, and Extreme Temperatures Michael Meyer, WSP–Parsons Brinckerhoff Alan O’Connor, Trinity College Dublin 9:45 a.m. Breakout Session 3: Recovering from a Weather-Related Transport Disruption 11:15 a.m. Networking Break 11:45 a.m. Plenary Session 8: Feedback from Breakout Session 12:30 p.m. Lunch 1:30 p.m. Plenary Session 9: Knowledge Gaps and Research Requirements 3:00 p.m. Plenary Session 10: Concluding Remarks Magdalena Kopczynska, European Commission Kevin Womack, U.S. Department of Transportation Neil Pedersen, Transportation Research Board 3:30 p.m. Adjourn