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6 Security and protection of assets is fundamental to ensure a safe and functional society. This chapter presents a review of the evolution of policies related to infrastructure and highway resilience.
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Evolution of Highway Resilience 7 • Nuclear reactors, materials, and waste; • Transportation, and • Water and wastewater. In response to climate and environmental concerns, the U.S.
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8 Resilience in Transportation Planning, Engineering, Management, Policy, and Administration and natural hazards. This led the House Committee on Homeland Security to hold a series of hearings in 2008 to address issues related to resilience.
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Evolution of Highway Resilience 9 Recently, there has been an effort to focus on resilience with regard to terrorism as well as to natural hazards that may be caused by the effects of climate change. FHWA Order 5520, published in December 2014, provides a framework to enable agencies to better prepare for and be resilient to hazards due to climate change and extreme weather conditions.
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10 Resilience in Transportation Planning, Engineering, Management, Policy, and Administration A few states provided information as to the expected performance of their facilities as a result of climate change and extreme weather that was included in the background paper. California noted that it was expected that the state would experience fewer extreme cold days and more extreme hot days, which will increase the risk of buckling highways as well as potential flooding of tunnels, coastal highways, runways, and railways.
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Evolution of Highway Resilience 11 Colorado DOT is beginning to explore potential uses of the information ranging from maintenance, operational planning, and project design. In addition, Colorado DOT will assess the usefulness of the information provided by the process and determine if future analyses should be conducted (Colorado Resiliency and Recovery Office, Online)
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12 Resilience in Transportation Planning, Engineering, Management, Policy, and Administration developmental decisions. Local governments play an important role in resiliency practices.
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Evolution of Highway Resilience 13 For those facilities that may be eligible for FEMA grants, the FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance Guidance provides information on grants available to communities addressing postdisaster recovery to support the planning and implementation of long-term hazard mitigation measures as well as a Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program to help proactively address potential hazards before an event. In addition, the same guidance document includes information on FEMA's Flood Mitigation Assistance Program (FEMA, 2015)
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14 Resilience in Transportation Planning, Engineering, Management, Policy, and Administration disaster assessment, emergency technologies, civil and infrastructure lifeline systems, multihazard characterization, risk and resilience measurements, and social and economic impacts. In particular, it created the Risk and Resilience Measurements Committee to address the use of risk in civil infrastructure and lifeline systems and to build risk-based resilience standards (ASCE, Online)
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