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The Infrastructure Resilience topic describes a range of programs, policies, case studies, resources, and tools related to surface transportation infrastructure resilience to extreme weather and changing climate conditions. Transportation agencies are working to create more resilient systems by conducting vulnerability assessments and incorporating climate risk into design, asset management, operations and maintenance strategies.

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Recent Developments

• Webinar Looks at U.S., International Approaches to Resilience
• Caltrans Completes Regional Climate Vulnerability Assessments
• Georgetown Climate Center Issues Toolkit on Equitable Adaptation to Climate Impacts
• Georgetown Climate Center Launches Managed Retreat Toolkit
• Guidebook Developed for Addressing Cost/Benefits of Adaptation Measures for Extreme Events, Climate Change
• Webinar Recording: Nature-based Resilience for Coastal Highways: Finding Partners and Funding
• July 15 Webinar: GCC's Managed Retreat Toolkit Launch
• North Carolina Issues Climate Risk Assessment, Resilience Plan
• FHWA To Support Temporary Uses for Sidewalks, Parking Areas
• Study Looks at Approaches to Evaluate Assets Repeatedly Damaged from Emergency Events

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Key Resources

• Resiliency Case Studies: State DOT Lessons Learned (May 2018)
• 2017 Resiliency Peer Exchange: Extreme Weather and Climate Impacts (2017)
• AASHTO Resilient and Sustainable Transportation Systems Program
• Understanding Transportation Resilience: A 2016–2018 Roadmap for Security, Emergency Management, and Infrastructure Protection in Transportation Resilience (January 2017)
• Extreme Weather Sessions Summaries and Presentations (AASHTO 2015)
• AASHTO 2013 Extreme Weather Events Symposium
• 2013-2015 Climate Resilience Pilot Program: Outcomes, Lessons Learned, and Recommendations (8-1-16)
• FHWA Resilience Web Page
• Publications - Climate Change Adaptation (FHWA)
• FHWA Order 5520: Transportation System Preparedness and Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events Jan 2015
• FHWA Gulf Coast Study website
• NCHRP Report 750: Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 2: Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, and the Highway System: Practitioner’s Guide and Research Report (2014)
• NCHRP Report 25-25, Task 94: Integrating Climate Change and Extreme Weather into Transportation Asset Management Plans 2015
• Council on Environmental Quality Draft Guidance for Consideration of Greenhouse Gases (2019)

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