Webinar Series: Building a Climate Resilient Transportation System

Webinar Series: Building a Climate Resilient Transportation System

In this webinar series, practitioners will share information, results and lessons learned through recent work by FHWA/US DOT and State and MPO partners to make the transportation system more resilient to climate change and extreme weather events. The first track focuses on the processes used in the Gulf Coast Study, Phase 2 (Mobile) and transferable methods developed for other agencies to assess the vulnerability of transportation infrastructure. The second track focuses on FHWA’s recently completed Climate Resilience Pilot program, which supported 19 pilot projects around the country to assess vulnerabilities and develop strategies to make transportation infrastructure and operations more resilient to climate change and extreme weather events.

FHWA Tools: Understanding Criticality and Sensitivity (Tuesday, Feb 10, 2-3:30) This webinar will introduce the webinar series, describe FHWA approaches to addressing resilience to climate change and extreme weather, and present approaches/tools for assessing criticality and sensitivity of different assets in the context of assessing vulnerability to climate change & extreme weather events.

• Adaptation approaches and climate resilience work overview

• Resources and examples from Gulf Coast 2 for assessing criticality and sensitivity

• MPO and DOT example applications

To register for this webinar, please click on this link

FHWA Tools: Assessing Vulnerability with VAST (Tuesday, Feb 17, 2-3:30 pm) This webinar will focus on using the Vulnerability Assessment Scoring Tool (VAST) to assess vulnerability to climate change and extreme weather events, including example applications of the tool.

• Gulf Coast 2 assessment of Vulnerability

• Overview of the Vulnerability Assessment Scoring Tool (VAST)

• Applying VAST in Maryland

To register for this webinar, please click on this link

FHWA Tools: Developing Scenarios of Future Environmental Conditions (Tuesday, Feb 24, 2-3:30) This webinar will discuss methods for developing climate change projections and information for transportation decision making, the CMIP Climate Data Processing tool, and example applications of the CMIP tool.

• Temperature and precipitation projections for transportation practitioners

• Sea level rise and storm surge development in Gulf Coast 2

• Introduction to the CMIP Climate Data Processing Tool

• Examples application of the CMIP tool by a DOT or MPO

To register for this webinar, please click on this link

FHWA Tools: Engineering Roads and Other Transportation Assets to be Resilient to Climate Change (Tuesday, March 3, 2-3:30) This webinar will focus on methods for analyzing facility level vulnerability and adaptation options, as well as examples of these kinds of analyses from the Gulf Coast 2 study and others.

FHWA Tools: Developing Future Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge Scenarios (Tuesday, March 10, 2-3:30) This webinar will focus on methods for analyzing vulnerability to sea level rise and coastal storms.

Registration and other information for the webinars starting in March will soon be posted on the FHWA climate change website at:

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/climate_change/adaptation/webinars/  

and

on the NHI Web Conferencing Event Calendar at:https://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/resources/webconference/eventcalendar.aspx