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50 Chapter 3: RISE CONFERENCE Introduction The Transportation Resilience Innovations and Summit Exchange (RISE) was held on October 8-10, 2018 in Denver, Colorado.
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51 The following 44 state DOTs and transportation agencies from other countries attended the RISE meeting. • Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities • Arizona Department of Transportation • Arkansas Department of Transportation • California Department of Transportation • Colorado Department of Transportation • Connecticut Department of Transportation • Delaware Department of Transportation • D.C.
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52 • High visibility of system disruptions - In most cases, transportation disruptions will inconvenience system users and those who rely on what the transportation system delivers; in the worst case, disruptions could result in fatalities and injuries. Thus, when such disruptions occur, political, public, and media attention is given to why the disruption occurred and, just as importantly, how the transportation agency will get the system back to normal and prevent such issues from recurring.
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53 Creating a state DOT culture of resilience starts with agency leadership – The fact that 13 state DOT CEOs and over 100 other high-level state DOT officials attended the Summit attests to the interest and concern DOT leaders have for system resilience. As was noted by many speakers and attendees, the path toward a more resilience-oriented DOT starts with agency leadership.
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54 foundational "pillars" of including resilience into decision making was understanding how "risk" can be considered in a decision-making context. Doing so necessarily requires an understanding of the types of threats and hazards that will likely be faced and the vulnerability of system assets to such threats/hazards.
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55 3. Many of the vulnerability assessments that have been conducted in the Nation follow a systematic process that is very similar to the usual steps in transportation planning, and thus the process steps will not be unfamiliar.
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56 individual strategies and actions, but also on methods for comparing across different projects (it is interesting to note that the session on benefit/cost methods was one of the most attended of the Summit)
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57 The consequences of system disruptions often have greater impacts on disadvantaged populations and thus transportation agencies need to consider such impacts in resilience efforts – Studies have shown that, in many major disasters, those living in poverty or who have no way of leaving an impacted area often face much higher consequences (and thus risks) than other population groups.
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58 caused major interstates to be shut down for many days, closed schools and government offices for up to three weeks, and resulted in major economic losses. The 2013 blizzard, on the other hand, saw major interstates closed for up to 12 hours unlike in 1978.
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59 Mr. Lewis described CDOT's efforts to "change mindsets," of thinking of system resilience as a key outcome of all the DOT's activities.
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60 9. Organizational strategies for incorporating resilience concepts throughout the agency.
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61 Cris Liban (LA County Metropolitan Transportation Commission) • The focus of many efforts has been on planning -- -- not much implementation.
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62 Using Technology to Enhance Tunnel Resilience This session summarized the key points from the tunnel field trip that occurred on the first day of the Summit. As context, a CDOT official noted that on average there is one fire per year in the tunnels, which handle approximately 12 million cars per year.
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