Transportation Sector Planning Guides
This tab includes guides to help practitioners conduct an adaptation plan in the transportation sector.
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January 2015
“The Innovative DOT: A Handbook of Policy and Practice,” developed by the State Smart Transportation Initiative and Smart Growth America, contains a resiliency section that provides guidance for state departments of transportation (DOTs) on how to incorporate climate change adaptation into long-range transportation planning. It provides state DOTs with a comprehensive list of reforms that will address potential climate-related vulnerabilities and reduce the likelihood, magnitude, duration and cost of disruption associated with extreme weather.
Related Organizations: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Resource Category: Planning
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October 2012
The Federal Highway Administration’s INVEST Tool (Tool) provides a collection of voluntary best practices (“criteria”) and associated point values to help transportation agencies and practitioners evaluate and improve the sustainability and climate resilience of their projects and programs. The Tool allows transportation agencies to evaluate the sustainability of their agency practices and projects across the entire transportation lifecycle, by self-assigning points based on how well they have met requirements set out for each particular criterion.
Related Organizations: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Resource Category: Planning
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February 2013
This guide is intended to be a resource to support metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and regional transportation planning agencies (RTPAs) in incorporating climate change impacts into their decision-making and planning processes. The guide helps MPOs and RTPAs with assessing risks to transportation assets from different climate stressors, inventorying assets, assessing the vulnerability of assets, and incorporating climate change into long-range planning and investment decisions. To facilitate these processes, the guide includes: background information on climate adaptation, recommended data and information to assist in incorporating climate considerations into regional planning, and a step-by-step process for integrating climate risks into plans.
Related Organizations: California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)
Resource Category: Planning
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April 7, 2010
Related Organizations: California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)
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November 2006
This paper is intended to “provide a broad conceptual framework for the possible role and objectives of standards and guidelines for the planning, design and construction of the transportation infrastructure under the assumption that climate change is occurring and will impact U.S. transportation.”
Related Organizations: Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies
Author or Affiliated User: Michael D. Meyer
Resource Category: Planning
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AASHTO's Sustainable Transportation: Energy, Infrastructure, and Climate Solutions Technical Assistance Program is designed to assist State Departments of Transportation in understanding the potential effects of climate change, and the range of strategies and options for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Related Organizations: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
Resource Category: Planning
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November 2009
This document is the United Kingdom Highways Agency's framework for developing adaptation plans for the agency and its corporate constituents. After providing an overview of the potential risks of climate change on the UK's infrastructure, the agency provides guidance on assessing risks, determining priorities, and identifying preferred options to address and manage these risks. The adaptation framework provides a platform for decision makers to examine their individual business areas, including standards, specifications, maintenance, and the development and operation of the Highways Agency network.
Related Organizations: United Kingdom Highways Agency
Resource Category: Planning
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August 2011
This report from the Federal Transit Administration compiles climate change adaptation analyses and information for use in adapting U.S. public transportation assets and services to climate change impacts. The report is targeted at transit professionals and aims to prompt the consideration of climate resiliency in the transit industry by providing sector-specific adaptation information.
Related Organizations: Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
Author or Affiliated User: Tina Hodges
Resource Category: Solutions
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December 2008
This appendix to a Peer Workshop report issued by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is a short overview of the need to adapt transportation planning and construction practices to the effects of climate change. It summarizes likely climate change impacts to transportation infrastructure. Topics covered include prioritizing the use of resources, performing environmental impact reviews, including climate impacts in the design and construction of infrastructure projects, and the need to account for climate change in maintenance and operations.
Related Organizations: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Resource Category: Planning
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July 2008
This report from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) seeks to advance the practice of transportation planning among state, regional, and local transportation planning agencies. In addition to identifying ways to reduce greenhouse gases in the transportation sector, the report reviews related climate change impacts, and discusses how state DOT's and MPO's can consider these impacts in their long-range transportation planning, as well as in Transportation Improvement Programs (TIP). The report also identifies the successes and challenges experienced by numerous state and local agencies already incorporating climate change into transportation planning processes.
Related Organizations: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Resource Category: Planning
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