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Infrastructure Resilience

Key Resources

This section describes research, documents, and reports related to sustainability. If you would like to suggest additional research, documents, or reports on this topic, please submit a short description to AASHTO (including any pertinent links) on the Share Info with AASHTO form.

• AASHTO Resources and Tools
  • 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)
  • Handout on Highway Design (AASHTO Extreme Weather Sessions 2015)
  • Handout on Hydraulic and Hydrologic Engineering (AASHTO Extreme Weather Sessions 2015)
  • Handout - Emergency Management (2015)
  • AASHTO Extreme Weather Handout - Materials (2015)
  • Handout on Bridges and Structures (AASHTO Extreme Weather Sessions 2014)
  • Handout on Construction (AASHTO Extreme Weather Sessions 2014)
  • Handout on Maintenance (AASHTO Extreme Weather Sessions 2014)
  • Handout on Transportation Systems Management and Operations (AASHTO Extreme Weather Sessions 2014)
  • AASHTO 2013 Extreme Weather Events Symposium
  • Primer on Transportation and Global Climate Change (AASHTO 2008)

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• FHWA and U.S. DOT Resources and Tools
  • 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
  • FHWA Air Quality and Climate Change Highlights (monthly publication)
  • U.S. DOT Draft 30-Year 'Framework for the Future' (Feb. 2015)
  • Related Links (FHWA)

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• EPA Resources and Tools
  • EPA Climate Change Home Page
  • EPA Transportation and Climate Website
  • EPA Climate Adaptation Web Page
  • EPA's State and Local Climate and Energy Program
  • Related Links (EPA)

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• Transportation Research Board and NCHRP
  • 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
  • Transportation Research Record: Systems Resilience and Climate Change (10-18-15)
  • TRB Special Report 290, Potential Impact of Climate Change on U.S. Transportation (2008)
  • TRB Climate Change website

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• Other Resources
  • Council on Environmental Quality Draft Guidance for Consideration of Greenhouse Gases (2019)
  • CEQ Climate Change Resources
  • Center for Climate and Energy Solutions website
  • Georgetown Climate Center Transportation Sector Web Page
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate.gov website
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Climate Change Website

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