Climate Change Adaptation Support for Transportation Practitioners: 2013 Volpe Center Innovation Challenge Project
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: The nature of the U.S. transportation system requires that actions to adapt to climate change impacts occur primarily at the State and local levels. Federal agencies support State, regional, and local agencies and they work hard to provide frameworks, data, tools, and research and to fund pilot projects as well. Experience has shown that advanced planning to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to the impacts of climate change has the potential to save money and prevent economic disruptions. However, even proactive State and local governments that have begun evaluating climate- and extreme weather-related risks to their resources have not yet fully integrated consideration of changing conditions into existing planning and operational practices, and others are in the early stages of identifying the climate risks and vulnerabilities they face. In December 2013, the Volpe Center's Innovation Challenge judges selected as the winning idea a project focused on helping transportation practitioners at all levels better understand, access, and use Federal climate change adaptation resources. This report summarizes the project and presents the resulting “Expert System” concept.\n
Source: ROSA P
Authors: Jon Cybulski, Kristin Lewis, Kevin McCoy, Ben Rasmussen
Language: English
Subfield: Civil and Structural Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Transportation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration, National Park Service, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Office of the Secretary of Transportation, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
OpenAlex ID: W2190394549