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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

• New Jersey to Develop Statewide Climate Change Resilience Strategy
• Study Documents Relationship Between Soil Properties, Erodibility
• FHWA Issues Memo, Webinar on Integration of Resilience in Emergency Relief Program
• Webinar Recording: FHWA Guide on Nature-based Solutions for Resilience
• GAO Issues Framework for Federal Efforts to Promote Resilience
• BTS Provides Best Practices in Cybersecurity and Intelligent Transportation Systems
• GAO Urges FHWA to Enhance Accountability in Use of ER Funds
• FHWA Fact Sheet Describes Eco-Logical, Resilience Improvements
• Caltrans Issues Vulnerability Assessments for Parts of Southern California
• Guide on Nature-Based Solutions for Resilience Issued by FHWA

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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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