Download or read book Incorporating Resilience Considerations in Transportation Planning TSMO and Asset Management written by Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Incorporating Resilience Into Transportation Planning and Assessment written by Sarah Weilant and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A resilient transportation system is one in which critical assets are not exposed to hazards or, if they are, there is sufficient capacity to mitigate the impacts of a shock. Current legislation requires resilience to be considered but does not provide guidance for how to incorporate it into the transportation planning process. Therefore, in this report, RAND researchers outline a conceptual framework to incorporate resilience into transportation planning. Researchers suggest that planners consider a framing of resilience that focuses on four elements: absorptive capacity, restorative capacity, equitable access, and adaptive capacity (AREA). Absorptive capacity is the ability of the system to absorb shocks and stresses and maintain normal functioning, restorative capacity is the ability to recover quickly following a shock or stress and return to normal, equitable access is the ability to provide opportunity for access across the entire community during both a shock or stress and normal functioning, and adaptive capacity is the ability to change in response to shocks and stresses to maintain normal functioning. The AREA approach provides a means to discover alternative options or strategies that should be considered when planning to increase the resilience of the entire transportation system through modifications and additions to those assets. The approach focuses on such metrics as exposure, availability of alternative routes and mode choices, community planning efforts, transportation system user rates, and system efficiency. The value of incorporating resilience assessments into decisionmaking is that more-cost-effective approaches might be revealed by taking a holistic approach to infrastructure.

Download or read book Integrating Asset Management Into Transportation Planning written by United States. Federal Highway Administration and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Creating Resilient Transportation Systems written by John Renne and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2022-02-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Resilient Transportation Systems: Policy, Planning and Implementation demonstrates how the transportation sector is a leading producer of carbon emissions that result in climate change and extreme weather disruptions and disasters. In the book, Renne, Wolshon, Murray-Tuite, Pande and Kim demonstrate how to minimize the transportation impacts associated with these urban disasters, with an ultimate goal of returning them to at least status quo in the shortest feasible time. Assesses the short and long-term impacts of transportation systems on the natural environment at local, regional and global scales Examines transportation systems in relation to risk, vulnerability, adaptation, mitigation, sustainability, climate change and livability Shows how urban transportation investments in transit, walking and bicycling result in significantly lower per capita carbon emissions when compared to investing in sprawling, automobile dependent regions

Download or read book Resilience in Transportation Planning Engineering Management Policy and Administration written by Aimee Flannery and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Resilience in Transportation Planning Engineering Management Policy and Administration written by Aimee Flannery and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report documents resilience efforts and how they are organized, understood, and implemented within transportation agencies' core functions and services. Core functions and services include planning, engineering, construction, maintenance, operations, and administration. The information gathered details the motivations behind the policies that promote highway resilience, definitions of risk and resilience, and the relationship between these two fields. The report also explores how agencies are incorporating resilience practices through project development, policy, and design.

Download or read book Asset Management Implementation Plan and Tiered System Process written by Michael J. Markow and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study has developed a five-year transportation asset management plan for the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT). This study has also developed a proposed tiering structure of the state highway system to support asset management. Asset management represents a strategic approach to managing transportation infrastructure. It embodies a set of principles to improve how an agency conducts business, how it reaches decisions, and how it processes, uses, and communicates information. CDOT, in consultation with the Colorado Transportation Commission, has already taken a number of steps toward improved asset management. A unique Investment Category approach organizes program investments within a policy-oriented framework incorporating explicit measures of performance. Other steps taken by CDOT include updates of the statewide planning process and the program prioritization process, establishment of maintenance program levels of service, institution of customer surveys, and updates of relevant information technology applications. The recommended transportation asset management plan builds upon these established concepts, methods, information, and tools to propose specific actions over the next five years in the following areas: (1) completion of all elements of the Investment Category structure; (2) incorporation of asset management principles in CDOT's planning and programming processes, building on a tiered structuring of CDOT assets that has also been recommended in this study; (3) integration of asset management information on a GIS platform, and renewal of Information Technology strategic planning to support asset management department-wide; and (4) strengthening of program delivery mechanisms and measures. The recommended tiering of the state highway system is built around the concept of interregional corridors, because CDOT is the sole provider of significant interregional highway transportation.

Download or read book Risk Based Transportation Asset Management written by Federal Highway Administration. Office of Asset Management and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the fifth of five reports examining how risk management complements asset management. This last report examines how physical, climatic, seismic and other external threats can be addressed in risk-based asset management programs. The first four reports and the literature review emphasized the definition of risk as the positive or negative effect of uncertainty or variability upon agency objectives. Those reports emphasized that risks could be positive in that some types of uncertainty can create opportunities. However, this report will focus more on negative risks, or threats. These risks generally are external, and while highly probable over a long period of time, are difficult to predict in the short term. Randomness and variability complicate planning for them. In August 2011, Hurricane Irene reached one of the nation's most northern states, Vermont, and damaged 480 bridges out of a total network of 2717 bridges. In one day, more bridge deterioration occurred than normally would occur over many years. Accurate prediction of such events is nearly impossible. Such a significant storm had not struck Vermont for 83 years. In managing risks to assets from external threats, this report emphasizes the Three Rs, which are Redundancy, Robustness and Resiliency. These will be defined, described and illustrated through several agency examples. Asset management plays a critical role in each, particularly Robustness and Resiliency. Including the Three Rs in asset planning efforts can better prepare agencies to cope with an increasingly unpredictable world."--Introduction

Download or read book Incorporating Resilience into Transportation Planning written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To aid decision making for developing transportation infrastructure, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has developed the Scenario Evaluation, Regionalization and Analysis (SERA) model. The SERA model is a geospatially and temporally oriented model that has been applied to determine optimal production and delivery scenarios for hydrogen, given resource availability and technology cost and performance, for use in fuel cell vehicles. In addition, the SERA model has been applied to plug-in electric vehicles.

Download or read book Integrating Asset Management and Planning written by United States. Federal Highway Administration and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Incorporating Disaster Resilience and Mitigation Practices Into Transportation Planning in the United States written by Victoria Byrne (M.S. in community and regional planning) and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weather-related natural disasters are becoming an increasingly serious problem in the United States. As cities worldwide facing the growing risk of disaster, it is important to have measurable steps that can be taken to attempt to prevent and mitigate natural disasters. This report identifies the increasing severity of natural disasters and the role transportation systems play. It explores how transportation systems can be designed to help cities be more disaster resilient and mitigate future disasters. It does this by exploring transportation-specific disaster resiliency and mitigation strategies and identifying small-to-large-scale projects that cities can implement. The report selects best practices from the literature and provides a list and description of recommended strategies. This report concludes by providing funding mechanisms by which cities can implement projects

Download or read book Incorporating Resilience in Infrastructure Investment Decisions written by Benjamin R. Knost and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resilience strategies are important considerations to decision-makers responsible for planning, designing, maintaining, and operating critical infrastructure systems where the consequences of failure in the presence of low-probability extreme events are high. Numerous studies have sought to define and measure resilience as a characteristic of a system; represent performance of systems prior to, during, and after extreme events; and quantify a system’s resilience, typically in the form of a score or an index. However, limited progress has been made towards making effective resilience decisions that take into account key tradeoffs. This study seeks to provide infrastructure decision-makers with comprehensive and operationally useful information regarding the resilience of their infrastructure by incorporating the probability of failure of facilities due to extreme events and the corresponding expected losses into a lifecycle cost function that can be optimized to determine the most beneficial balance between resilience to extreme events on the one hand and the cost of resilience strategies on the other. By incorporating both the cost and benefit of implementing resilience improving strategies within an infrastructure system planning, design, and management decision framework, resilience informed decisions can be made by exploring lifecycle cost tradeoffs. The developed framework is operationalized to investigate the facility hardening and system dispersal resilience improving strategies in the contexts of a natural disaster and, separately, an intentional threat aplications. Facility characteristic and damage data from a US Air Force base in Florida hit by a category 5 hurricane in 2018 along with US Department of Defense facility design guidelines in the presence of explosive threats are used to estimate construction cost, operating cost, and probability of failure models. These models are employed in an evaluation designed to illustrate the developed framework’s feasibility; demonstrate its value to decision makers; understand the sensitivity of the solution to geographic constriants, likelihood of extreme events, and economic and social impacts of disruptions and failures that could result from such events; and gain insights into the nature of key resiliency tradeoffs at play. Results show that statistically significant cost and probability of failure models can indeed be estimated and that the resulting relationships can be used to build a expected lifecycle cost objective function that leads to determining optimal resilience improving decisions as well as quantifying the cost associated with sub-optimal decisions. Operationalizability, adaptability, and generalizability considering two real world grounded situations are clealry demonstrated. Meaningful results are arrived at where the optimal levels and combinations of resilience improving investments are identified considering key resiliency tradeoffs and geographical constraints that decision makers often face. Incorporating resilience strategies into infrastructure planning and design is shown to be beneficial. Only under limited conditions the implementation of all available resilience improving strategies or not implementing any are found to be optimal. These numerical results indicate that resilience related tradeoffs are important and that the developed framework and approach are effective in capturing these tradeoffs to determine optimal resileince investments. The results also provide insight into the aspects of the framework to which optimal solutions are most sensitive, namely the likelihood of extreme events and the their possible economic and social impacts, allowing decision makers to prioritize data collection and estimation efforts to target areas where the consequence of accurate information is at a premium.

Download or read book Transportation Asset Management and Climate Change written by John Patrick O'Har and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation Asset Management (TAM) systems are in use at many transportation agencies both in the United States and around the world. These asset management systems serve as strategic resource allocation frameworks and their degree of implementation and maturity varies. Climatic change, with its potentially adverse impacts on both the built and natural environments, has become of increasing concern around the globe. Given the uncertainties associated with changing climatic conditions, transportation agency stakeholders utilize risk-based decision-making approaches to identify climate change impacts that pose the greatest risk to transportation infrastructure assets. In conjunction with criticality assessments, emerging conceptual frameworks seek to identify higher-risk infrastructure assets, which are both critical to system operations and vulnerable to potential climate change impacts, through standalone study efforts. : This research develops a risk-oriented decision-making framework to identify vulnerable, higher-risk transportation infrastructure assets within the context of existing transportation asset management systems. The framework assesses the relative maturity of an agency's transportation asset management system and provides guidance as to how an agency's existing tools and processes can be used to incorporate climate change considerations. This risk-based decision-making framework is applied to three case studies: one at the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, another at the Metropolitan Planning Commission in Savannah - Chatham County, and a statewide case study at the Georgia Department of Transportation. : The results of this research demonstrate that readily-available climate projection data can be analyzed and displayed geospatially so that the potential impacts of climatic change on transportation infrastructure can be determined for specific geographic regions. In addition, existing roadway and bridge infrastructure datasets can also be displayed geospatially. The framework uses geospatially-referenced roadway and bridge asset data and multi-criteria decision analysis procedures to develop and visually display criticality scores. Overlaying climate projection data and criticality data helps identify higher-risk transportation infrastructure assets. This research demonstrates that climate change considerations can be effectively incorporated in existing decision-making processes at various levels of maturity of formal TAM systems, making this more broadly accessible to agencies and communities with potential climate hazards.

Download or read book AASHTO Transportation Asset Management Guide written by American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and published by AASHTO. This book was released on 2011 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims to encourage transportation agencies to address strategic questions as they confront the task of managing the surface transportation system. Drawn form both national and international knowledge and experience, it provides guidance to State Department of Transportation (DOT) decision makers, as well as county and municipal transportation agencies, to assist them in realizing the most from financial resources now and into the future, preserving highway assets, and providing the service expected by customers. Divided into two parts, Part one focuses on leadership and goal and objective setintg, while Part two is more technically oriented. Appendices include work sheets and case studies.

Download or read book Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region written by R. Krishnan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book discusses the impact of human-induced global climate change on the regional climate and monsoons of the Indian subcontinent, adjoining Indian Ocean and the Himalayas. It documents the regional climate change projections based on the climate models used in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and climate change modeling studies using the IITM Earth System Model (ESM) and CORDEX South Asia datasets. The IPCC assessment reports, published every 6–7 years, constitute important reference materials for major policy decisions on climate change, adaptation, and mitigation. While the IPCC assessment reports largely provide a global perspective on climate change, the focus on regional climate change aspects is considerably limited. The effects of climate change over the Indian subcontinent involve complex physical processes on different space and time scales, especially given that the mean climate of this region is generally shaped by the Indian monsoon and the unique high-elevation geographical features such as the Himalayas, the Western Ghats, the Tibetan Plateau and the adjoining Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, and Bay of Bengal. This book also presents policy relevant information based on robust scientific analysis and assessments of the observed and projected future climate change over the Indian region.

Download or read book Empowering the New Mobility Workforce written by Tyler Reeb and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowering the New Mobility Workforce: Educating, Training, and Inspiring Future Transportation Professionals enlists a multidisciplinary roster of subject matter specialists who identify the priorities and strategies for cultivating a skilled workforce for the rapidly changing transportation landscape. Transportation employers will need to hire 4.6 million workers—1.2 times the current transportation workforce—in the next decade. The book explores how leaders in education, industry and government can work together to create an ecosystem that facilitates learning and upskilling for emerging and incumbent transportation workers. Readers will learn how to conduct labor market analyses and develop competency models to adapt their workforce. This book will empower readers to establish ongoing communities of practice that cultivate sustainable career pathways that respond to ever-evolving socioeconomic trends and transformational technologies. Provides a comprehensive assessment of the new technologies and consumer attitudes driving change in personal vehicle, mass transit, active transportation, and goods movement, both domestically and internationally Identifies the career pathways, experiential learning models, and types of curriculum needed to prepare emerging professionals to develop and operate transportation systems of the future Emphasizes, through case studies, innovative practices emerging in public- and private-sector transportation organizations Draws on key work conducted in the United States and around the world, acknowledging the increasing interconnectedness of transportation systems between countries, economies and social networks that transcend national boundaries

Download or read book The Emergence of a Palestinian Globalized Elite written by Sārī Ḥanafī and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to inquire into the ways in which external actors influence Palestinian NGOs in terms of their development policies and their relative promotion of democratization, and secondly, to investigate the capacity of Palestinian NGOs to contribute to the elaboration of global agendas through transnational activism and global conferences. In order to circumscribe this broad problematic, the empirical data was drawn from organizations working within three sectors: in health, in gender and development, and in human rights and democracy. As the empirical investigation for this study proceeded, this study became aware that an examination of the sites where the ‘global’ and the ‘local’ intersect and intertwine is inseparable from an analysis of the effects of new transnational relations, specifically the aid system, and their impact on local social formations. This is to say that local actors and social structures do not remain static, but are transformed as they are drawn into new transnational relations and then seek to negotiate their place within the aid industry and their relations with donors and international NGOs.