Investing in Transportation Resilience: A Framework for Informed Choices (2021) / Chapter Skim
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125 Disruptions to the functioning of the nation's transportation systems are occurring on a more frequent basis, with increasingly severe consequences, as climate change spawns more extreme weather events, leads to sea level rise, and alters temperature and precipitation norms. Preventing the occurrence and reducing the severity of these disruptions will become increasingly challenging, and the costs to society and the economy will escalate if this challenge goes unmet.
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126 INVESTING IN TRANSPORTATION RESILIENCE for resilience measurement, evaluation, and investment prioritization. The federal modal agencies and the state and local owners of infrastructure have commissioned numerous reports, funded and participated in pilot programs, developed guidance documents, and began implementing the recommended practices.
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CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 127 to gain benefits that may or may not be realized in the future. It can also accommodate the consideration of life-cycle costs.
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128 INVESTING IN TRANSPORTATION RESILIENCE to Congress and U.S. DOT, but their aim is to strengthen the resilience practices and capabilities of thousands of state, regional, and local transportation agencies.
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CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 129 RECOMMENDATION 3: The Office of the Secretary of Transportation should provide guidance to the U.S. Department of Transportation modal administrations on the development of analytic methods and tools for estimating resilience benefits that are applicable to transportation agencies in their respective modes.
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130 INVESTING IN TRANSPORTATION RESILIENCE RECOMMENDATION 5: The Office of the Secretary of Transportation should coordinate with the modal agencies on the design and conduct of structured pilots to assess and demonstrate the applicability of each agency's guidance and suggested tools for estimating resilience benefits according to the recommended multi-step analytic framework. FHWA's series of pilot programs for highway resilience analysis should be used as a model for these structured mode-specific pilots, which have led to increased state and local transportation agency familiarity with resilience analysis and to continual improvements in FHWA's guidance on analytic methods and appropriate tools.
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