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10 Chapter 1: PROJECT CONTEXT, RESEARCH OBJECTIVES, AND APPROACH Introduction Large-scale disruptions to transportation systems are one of the realities of today's world. In the case of extreme weather, events over the years have demonstrated -- often with tragic consequences -- that many transportation agency assets, as well as other public and private assets, are at risk of failure.
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11 state DOTs could be encouraged. Many of the Transportation Research Board's (TRB's)
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12 Task 10 produced the final research products -- this final report and other dissemination products such as a PowerPoint presentation. Task 1: Identify Resilience Characteristics Task 3: Develop Summit and Peer Exchange Plan Task 4: Develop Resilience Guide and Self-assessment Tool Outlines Task 5: Develop Pre-Summit Materials including Draft Guide and Toolkit Materials Task 6: Conduct Summit/ Peer Exchange Task 9: Beyond the Summit: Dissemination to Deployment Task 7: Develop Summit/ Peer Exchange Report Task 8: Finalize Resilience Guide and Selfassessment Tool Task 10: Prepare Draft and Final Report for Project Task 2: Review State DOT Resilience Efforts Figure 1: Research Approach Organizational Perspectives on Transportation System Resilience The results of CRP resilience research suggest that the study of resilience and its relationship to the characteristics of system disruptions is multi-faceted and complex.
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13 disruptions and how they relate to an organization's capacity to prepare, respond to, and recover from such disruptions. Interconnected and Cascading Network Disruptions - Much of the attention in the resilience research has focused on natural "system shock" events such as floods, hurricanes, tornados, and the like; and human-caused shock events such as the imminent threat or reality of terrorist attacks, catastrophic structural failures, and cyberattacks.
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14 The state-of-the-practice for system resilience among state DOTs presents a mix of strong capability and commitment in some areas and relatively little progress in others. Providing insights into the challenges and potential barriers to implementing a transportation system resilience perspective was considered a critically important aspect of this research in structuring an impactful Summit agenda and providing an insightful Resilience Guide and Self-Assessment Tool.
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15 staff may well become involved in securing staging areas for pre-positioning resources and staging areas. Maintenance forces will almost invariably serve on the front lines of emergency responses in providing people, materials, equipment and the "know how" to deploy these resources in a safe and effective manner and in concert with other responders.
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16 ridership resulting in major cutbacks in service. And yet many essential workers were dependent on transit to access their jobs.
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17 Report Organization Chapter 2 summarizes the key transportation system resilience literature. This review examined alternative definitions of "resilience," a systems perspective on resilience, characteristics of disruptions, and measures of resilience.
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