Improving the Resilience of Transit Systems Threatened by Natural Disasters, Volume 1: A Guide (2017) / Chapter Skim
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-1 CHAPTER 4 Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources TOPICS: 1. Case Study Overviews 2.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-2 RESILIENCE ADOPTION TOOLS AND RESOURCES Chapter 2 of this Guide presented a basic four-step process intended to help you identify which path or pathways to resilience make sense for your agency. Chapter 3 described some additional steps your agency can take to integrate resilience planning and adoption at your agency within the larger regional context.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-4 and St. Petersburg)
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-5 Idaho's Valley Regional Transit (VRT) – VRT, a small regional public transportation authority operating in Ada (Boise City)
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-6 heavily on the knowledge of managers and front- line workers to identify assets, infrastructure and services potentially vulnerable to extreme weather and works closely with the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) , the region's MPO, to coordinate system planning across its seven- county service area.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-7 its infrastructure and facility design criteria and construction specifications to include resilience in all capital project construction, operations and maintenance activities. Maryland Transit Administration (MTA)
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-8 comprehensive Winter Resiliency Plan, which will be implemented over the next five years through capital investments, non-federal MBTA capital funds, and operating funds. The plan, which calls for the purchase of new snow removal equipment, infrastructure upgrades, and operations during harsh weather to improve service reliability, can be a model for other agencies that experience extreme winter weather events.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-9 initiatives, such as sustainability and resilience, to be more successful than imposing a new, standalone system. Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-10 term, NJ TRANSIT is focusing on resilience by incorporating "designs and materials that can resist and survive weather events." The agency is also in the process of designing and constructing NJ TRANSITGRID, "a first-of-itskind electrical micro-grid capable of supplying highly-reliable power during storms or other times when the centralized power grid or local power distribution networks are compromised;" and a Coast Storm Surge Emergency Warning System in partnership with NOAA and Stevens Institute of Technology. In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, NJ TRANSIT put in place a very detailed, mode-specific, Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan that is publically available online.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-11 put in place procedures to relocate all moveable assets out of "harm's way" to remote and safe locations when flooding is expected. Key functions for the system's operation can be provided "on the fly." The RTA has a mobile dispatch and communication unit that is now a key player in New Orleans' City-Assisted Evacuation Plan, which is designed to serve the large carless population in New Orleans.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-12 foundation for its climate adaptation efforts and consideration of weather-related resilience in its policies, planning, capital programming, project design and construction activities. BART is also an active participant in regional planning efforts aimed at addressing the threat of sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay area.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-13 planning process. This work may serve as a model for other agencies to use in their climate resiliency and hazard/ risk management programs.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-14 as the national transportation authority for the country of Sweden, STA is actively engaged in a variety of activities related to resilience planning, engineering, maintenance, and operations across a range of transportation modes. The agency is primarily concerned with flooding, coastal storm surge and sea level rise, and ensuring the "robustness" of transit operations and infrastructure.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-15 resilience is the London Resilience Forum (LRF) , which includes more than 170 organizations.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-16 infrastructure. In that regard, capital project infrastructure designs must meet seismic standards.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-17 craft a resilience definition that fits your agency's needs and circumstances. Resilience Lens Tool – The Resilience Lens Tool is a simple matrix-based questionnaire that provides a framework for looking at existing agency processes, procedures and ongoing initiatives (from long range planning to asset management to operations and maintenance)
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-18 both internal agency personnel and potentially a range of external stakeholders. This simple matrix worksheet will help you develop a preliminary list of which departments and individuals within your transit agency have a stake in improving transit resilience, which entities outside of your agency may play a role in ensuring resilient transit services and who in your region relies on your services and therefore may be allies in your efforts to improve transit resilience.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-19 different audiences. A strong business case will also address specific departments' and individuals' interests and needs (What's In It For Me –WIIFM)
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-20 worksheet includes instructions for conducting a visioning session with key personnel at your agency, including a series of "prompt" questions designed to elicit themes and key words that can be used to craft a resilience vision tailored to the particular circumstances of your agency. Strategy planning worksheet – Step three of the resilience planning process described in Chapter 2 calls for the identification of resilience strategies and the development of detailed action plans for each of the resilience strategies prioritized by your agency for adoption.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-21 Whether it is the roads on which buses travel or the electricity that powers your trains and other facilities, there are many operational interdependencies that can affect your agencies ability to become more resilient. There are also internal interdependencies to consider.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-22 3. Resilience Planning Frameworks and Guidance Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-23 Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Climate Change and Extreme Weather Vulnerability Assessment Framework is a guide and collection of resources for use in analyzing the impacts of climate change and extreme weather on transportation infrastructure.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-24 is to respond to and recovery from each threat; and 4) estimate the resources required to achieve greater resilience through the use of agency/community assets and mutual aid, while also considering preparedness activities, including mitigation opportunities.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-25 on the Guide go to: https://www.nist.gov/el/resilience/communityresilience- planning-guide.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-26 Sustainable Infrastructure, a not-for-profit education and research organization founded by the American Public Works Association, the American Council of Engineering Companies and the American Society of Civil Engineers. Envision evaluates and grades infrastructure projects based on 60 criteria, many of which are directly applicable to planning, designing and constructing resilient transit infrastructure.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-27 The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) Comprehensive Interdependency Assessment Framework demonstrates advanced concepts related to interdependency mapping and evaluation, including discussions of risks, hazards and resilience in terms of utilities (power, water, and communications)
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-28 Administration's (NASA) Regional Multiagency, Multijurisdictional Resilience Workshops provide materials and lessons learned from efforts to lead regional and facility collaboration for climate change adaptation.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-29 4. Self-assessment Tools, Checklists and Guidance LA Metro's Resilience Indicator Framework presents a set of resiliency indicators developed for Metro's transit programs to help prioritize and evaluate climate adaptation implementation priorities to ensure infrastructure resilience and maintain a good state of repair.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-30 more than 100 resilience-related topic checklists pertaining to transportation safety, security and emergency preparedness. The website can be accessed at https://www.transit.dot.gov/regulationsand-guidance/safety/safety-training FHWA's Infrastructure Voluntary Evaluation Sustainability Tool (INVEST)
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-31 allocation guidelines for safety and security investments. The Guide and tool provide for a consequence-based assessment across multiple modes of transportation assets.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-32 droughts. http:// water.weather.gov/ahps/ NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information Climate at a Glance website provides near real-time analysis of monthly temperature and precipitation data across the contiguous United States.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-33 temperature and precipitation data for each geographic area. https://www2.usgs.gov/climate_landuse/clu_rd/nccv.asp State and regional resources are available in many parts of the country.
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Resilience Adoption Tools and Resources – 4-34 identifies a custom network of climate peers whose current climate reflects how yours may look in the future. The CIAT also provides a searchable database of adaptation strategies pulled from existing climate action plans from across the country.
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