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93 The following pages reproduce excerpts from Understanding Transportation Resilience: A 2016–2018 Roadmap (Fletcher and Ekern 2017) that were provided as appendices with the discussion papers that now make up Part 2 of this report.
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94 Transportation System Resilience: Research Roadmap and White Papers These core notions were easily seen as analogs of desirable characteristics of governments, communities, and complex systems such as transportation. Consequently, various agencies began to define resilience in multiple, similar but not completely harmonious terms.
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Excerpts from Understanding Transportation Resilience: A 2016–2018 Roadmap 95 render such an activity moot. On the other hand, multiple applications of this ad hoc terminology may create the notion that "resilience" may be merely just the latest "buzz word" or initiative du jour.
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96 Transportation System Resilience: Research Roadmap and White Papers The major take-away from this discussion is that, while state transportation agencies have significant roles to play in restoring transportation services and functions, in many cases they will not be the lead agency responsible and will need to closely coordinate, collaborate, and communicate with others. From the DOT's perspective, there are three distinct viewpoints: planning (climate change/ sustainability)
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Excerpts from Understanding Transportation Resilience: A 2016–2018 Roadmap 97 inadequacy of preparation for natural and human-made disasters" when it identified resilience as the number one NCHRP Emphasis Area for FY2017.
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98 Transportation System Resilience: Research Roadmap and White Papers The Roles of Security, Emergency Management, and Infrastructure Protection in Transportation Resilience Over the course of time there have emerged a set of eight strategies that are recognized as effective methods of improving the resilience of many areas of service delivery. These well-understood strategies employed by the emergency management and security communities may share a common thread across all faces of resilience.
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Excerpts from Understanding Transportation Resilience: A 2016–2018 Roadmap 99 Table B-2. Strategies to achieve resilience.
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