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76 Chapter 5: IMPLEMENTATION OF RESILIENCE STRATEGIES AND PROGRAMS The underlying objective of this project is to bring about cross-discipline and organizational change in state DOT policies and practices as well as agency culture for transportation resilience. The results of this research have the potential to affect whether and how state DOTs (and other transportation agencies)
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77 regulations affecting the substance and process of federally-aide state programs, and public initiatives (sometimes in the form of referenda) that provide resources subject to very specific project eligibility criteria, to name a few.
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78 Uneven playing fields in the institutional environment In many cases, not all potential members of a collaborative implementation have equal power or influence. Those having control of financial resources or having legitimacy due to legal mandate can often have a greater say.
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79 A resilience implementation strategy should address as many of these challenges as possible, recognizing that there will be different roles for those participating in the strategy. At the national level, the federal government has historically been involved in implementing national programs in a variety of ways, from outright legislative and regulatory requirements, to providing funding incentives to encourage actions to meeting program objectives, to providing technical guidance and funding pilot studies to establish best practices.
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80 Table 6: Example Resilience Policies in Federal Legislation and Agency Guidance Documents Mechanism Requirements USDOT FY 2018-22 Strategic Plan "DOT will increase its effectiveness in ensuring that infrastructure is resilient enough to withstand extreme weather." FHWA Order 5520 Commits FHWA to integrating extreme weather risk consideration into programs. Federal Law [as found in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
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81 needs, and reduce the vulnerability of the existing transportation infrastructure to natural disasters." 23 CFR 515.7 (c)
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82 1. Promote and support the successful development and conduct of local, regional, and statewide TIM programs through peer networking, mentoring, and knowledge exchange among public safety and transportation professionals.
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83 developed for this project. The Resilience Guide and Self-Assessment Tool could serve as platform for an ongoing involvement of resilient-related professionals via NUG or a NUG-like platform.
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84 agencies and organizations that support peer exchanges and for presence at the national level (AASHTO, FHWA, and TRB)
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85 State DOT officials in this case also emphasized the need for training programs in their agency to expose their staff to the broad dimensions of such a focus (why are we doing this?
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86 on the focus of the course] adaptive design approaches -- in some cases, engineering design and for others more a community resilience focus, and 6)
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