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Climate change continues to affect our environment and is expected to become worse in the future, which may damage and disrupt the transportation system. As transportation agencies continue to design, build, and maintain roads, bridges, and other transportation infrastructure, these conditions should be fully considered in making wise investment decisions impacting system condition and usage.
The National Highway Institute (NHI) has developed the Addressing Climate Resilience in Highway Project Development and Preliminary Design courses to provide knowledge about these concepts and describe example applications.
This set of Web-based training (WBT) will teach participants about the relationship between engineering inputs and the design process, identify how conditions for those inputs may change in the future, and outline how to conduct a robust assessment of future risk and consequences to guide more effective decisions.
NHI offers the following one-hour, WBT courses that provides ways to integrate resilience to climate change and extreme weather events:
Introduces the future projections of precipitation, temperature, and sea levels. Also, learn basic scientific principles and an overview of potential impacts of these changes to transportation facilities.
Describes the methods and tools used to produce temperature and precipitation patterns that can be used for project development purposes.
Introduces the purpose of system-level vulnerability assessments and identify the different techniques for undertaking these assessments.
Introduces the facility-level adaptation assessments process. Also learn risk-based approaches to evaluate cost-effectiveness under various scenarios in the usage of the adaptation strategy selection.
Prerequisite Information
These four WBT are prerequisite courses for the upcoming FHWA-NHI-142085-Addressing Climate Resilience in Highway Development & Preliminary Design course. These WBT can be taken collectively or individually.
Who should attend this course?
If you are an engineer, project manager, or part of the environmental staff who develops and designs transportation projects, this course series is created just for you. It is also relevant to other transportation professionals that implement climate resilience into their work, including planners and asset managers.
Visit NHI's website today and learn ways of integrating resilience to climate change and extreme weather events into project development and preliminary design processes.
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