This webinar provided a closing summary of AASHTO’s RSTS Resilience Webinar Series, as well as findings and lessons learned from DOT CEOs at the first annual Transportation Resilience Innovations Summit and Exchange (RISE).
The peer exchange, held on November 6 and 7, 2017, sponsored an assembly of key DOT stakeholders to contribute to an important dialogue on resiliency and assist transportation stakeholders in resolving issues related to extreme weather and sea level rise preparedness, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Following up on Extreme Weather Sessions held in 2014, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) continues to share practitioner-focused updates on the latest research, case studies, and tools pertaining to extreme weather and climate change. Information was provided at the following 2015 committee meetings.
As a follow-up to the 2013 Extreme Weather Events Symposium, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) in partnership with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and sponsored by the Center for Environmental Excellence (CEE), presented practitioner-focused updates on the latest research, case studies, and tools pertaining to climate change and extreme weather.
The event covered state DOT case studies related to experiences with extreme weather events; an overview of trends and projections for extreme weather in the United States; costs of extreme weather events; and risk management strategies in design, operations and maintenance, and asset management, and emergency response.
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This webinar was the twelfth and final in the series of climate change webinars sponsored by AASHTO and FHWA. This webinar featured three recent reports relating to energy and/or climate change, which includes a TRB Special Report 307, a recent report on American views of climate change, and the Missouri DOT energy report.
This webinar explores some basics on electric vehicles (EV’s) and their operation, how fast EV’s will be joining the fleet, advantages for the environment, implications for electric utilities, and how State DOT’s can support the transition to EV’s.
This webinar presents a major report that was issued by the Pew Center on Climate Change and commissioned by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program. The report identifies reasonable actions across three fronts – technology, policy, and consumer behavior – that could deliver up to a 65 percent reduction in transportation emissions from current levels by 2050.