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... 8 SUMMARY The purpose of National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) 20-117, Deploying Transportation Resilience Practices in State DOTs, was to develop a set of tools and products for agencies interested in achieving a "resilience-focused" culture in their organizations.
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... 9 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. The self-assessment tool gathers in one sequence of steps the various activities that will enhance an agency's resilience efforts aimed at natural and human-caused hazards and threats.

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