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63 Chapter 4: MAINSTREAMING SYSTEM RESILIENCE CONCEPTS INTO TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES: A GUIDE INTRODUCTION Based on the results of the literature review, case studies, and the results of the RISE conference, a guide entitled Mainstreaming System Resilience Concepts into Transportation Agencies: A Guide was prepared to help transportation agencies identify actions and strategies to improve the system resiliency efforts of their agencies. The guide was in the form of a self-assessment tool that focuses on the current status of an agency's efforts to improve the resilience of the transportation system and how then to improve an agency's capacity through the mainstreaming of resilience concepts into agency decision making and procedures.
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64 • Planning for and responding to disruptions often requires the participation of many different agencies, organizations, communities, and groups that leads to multidisciplinary collaborative efforts. • The benefits, costs, and impacts of having a resilient transportation system (or not)
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65 Step 3: Develop an External Communications Strategy and Plan One of the lessons learned from many DOTs is that effective communications among the many different participants in responding to an incident or disruptive event is critical to overall success. This step examines how such communications and information exchange can be improved.
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66 Transportation Engineering Approaches to Climate Resiliency (TEACR) FHWA produced this report that examined changing climate conditions and extreme weather events ane the implications of such changes to project development and engineering design (FHWA 2017f)
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67 Step 4: Implement Early Wins As part of an overall strategy for improving resilience capability, your agency should be identifying and implementing strategies/actions that can be taken early (and hopefully with little cost)
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68 • Facilities might need to be protected because of the broader function they serve for surrounding communities or key facilities (e.g., protecting lifeline, evacuation, recovery routes or access to military bases)
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69 Step 8C: Undertake Detailed Assessments of Exposed Assets and New Projects This step conducts the detailed assessments of exposed assets and new projects identified and prioritized in Step 7. These assessments will vary by type of hazard or threat and with the level of resources that are available for conducting the assessments.
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70 Table 3: Self-Assessment Questions for Step 2; Organize for Success Score Range Description of Agency Maturity in Implementing Early Wins 0 to 13 Your agency is emerging into this area and has taken initial steps to grow awareness and understanding of the types of early wins it can implement. 14 to 26 Your agency has implemented several "early win" strategies, not so much as part of an agency-wide strategy but rather at the initiative of agency staff.
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71 Table 4: Example Early Win Actions Transportation Agency Functional Areas Policy Planning Design Operations Emergency Response and Recovery Maintenance Incorporate "system resilience" into agency goals, policy statements, and directives Develop and describe methodologies for including system resilience concerns in planning. Identify the recurring types of design exceptions that relate to extreme environmental conditions.
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72 Work with key enabling groups and organizations (e.g., governor's office) to develop consistent message on system resilience Develop resilience performance metrics.
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73 FEMA's Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) FEMA created the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA)
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74 • Construction • Maintenance • Asset Management • Emergency response/Agency preparedness • Public outreach/Communications Although each self-assessment step provides very specific recommended actions targeted for that step as well as leading to recommended actions for agency functional areas, the following themes run throughout the guide. • Collaboration – Given the multi-agency, multi-participant, and multi-disciplinary nature of many resilience actions and efforts, many of the factors emphasize the level to which your agency has made the effort to collaborate with partner agencies and other groups.
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75 The guide is a useful tool for mainstreaming resilience efforts into agency decision-making and standard operating procedures. Although the proposed resilience framework steps and the factors included in the self-assessment are offered as best case examples of resilience concerns for agency decision makers, users of the guide can modify the approach to make it as relevant as possible to the circumstances facing in individual agency.
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