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Enhancing Transit Resilience: A Comprehensive Guidebook

Dive into this comprehensive guidebook on transit system resilience, covering key aspects such as defining resilience, pathways to preparedness, and utilization of tools and resources. Learn from case studies and best practices to fortify your agency against natural disasters and climatic events.

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Enhancing Transit Resilience: A Comprehensive Guidebook

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  1. Transit Cooperative Research Program TCRP A-41: Improving the Resilience of Transit Agencies Threatened by Natural Disasters APTA 2016 Sustainability Workshop Austin, TX

  2. Presentation Overview • Project background and objectives • Draft Guidebook Overview • Section 1: What is transit system resilience? • Section 2: Charting your own path toward resilience • Section 3: Thinking beyond your agency • Section 4: Transit resilience toolkit and database

  3. TCRP A-41 Project Overview Objective: Develop a handbook and support materials to enable public transit systems to become more resilient to natural disasters and climatic events Phase I Tasks • State of the Practice Literature Review • Transit Agency Case Studies • Synthesis of Current Resilience Practices • Interim Report and Draft Outline of Guide Phase 2 Tasks 5. Draft Guide 6. Pilot Guide 7. Final Report, Final Guide, and Powerpoint

  4. Project Team Study Team • Deborah Matherly (PI) and Louis Berger staff- Jane Mobley, Karie Kneller, + • Jon Carnegie (Co-PI) and Rutgers staff- Ryan Whytlaw • Support: • Brian Wolshon & John Renne (TOD) • Tom Callahan (UII) • Jim Shaw (APA) • Bill Ankner • Eric Peterson • Marie Venner Oversight • Panel Chair: CrisLiban (LACMTA) • TCRP Senior Program Officer: Stephan Parker

  5. Learning Objectives • Consider different definitions of transit system resilience and the domains of resilience adoption • Explore which pathway to resilience might be right for your transit agency • Learn four basic steps to chart a course to resilience • Understand regional and multi-sector context of interdependencies to promote regional resilience • Learn about tools and resources to help your agency achieve its resilience goals

  6. SECTION 1 What is transit system resilience?

  7. Resilience is cross-cutting

  8. Defining Resilience …the ability to prepareand plan for, absorb, respond, recover from, and more successfully adapt to adverse events. ~ The National Academies

  9. What definition is right for you? “The ability to provide core functions in the face of threats, and recover quickly from major shocks or changing conditions” ~ LACMTA One definition need not fit all…It is up to you to figure out what resilience means for your agency. Being able to “…bounce back from shocks during natural disasters or weather-related events.” ~ Kansas City Transit Authority “Being better prepared to withstand and recover from an extreme weather event or threat.” ~ NJ TRANSIT

  10. Why choosing resilience matters?

  11. The business case for resilience… Enhanced resilience allows better anticipation of disasters and better planning to reduce disaster losses, rather than waiting for an event to occur and paying for it afterward. ~ National Academies

  12. There are many pathways to resilience… More than one and maybe others…

  13. Leadership Interest - HART • Agency Size: Medium • Location: Gulf Coast • Modes: Light rail, bus, demand response • Hazards: Heavy precipitation and flooding, high winds, coastal storm surge, wave action, sea-level rise, high heat

  14. Asset Management - MARTA • Agency Size: Large • 130 m unlinked trips • Location: Southeast, not coastal • Modes: Heavy rail, bus, demand response • Hazards: Heavy precipitation and flooding, high heat, drought

  15. Sustainability Focus - LACMTA • Agency Size: Large • 3,300 + vehicles • 476 m unlinked trips • Location: West Coast • Modes: Heavy rail, light rail, bus, demand response • Hazards: Earthquakes, flooding, mudslides, wildfires, high wind, sea-level rise, dust storms, high heat

  16. Adverse Event - NJ TRANSIT • Agency Size: Large • 5,000 + vehicles • 271 m unlinked trips • Location: East Coast • Modes: Commuter rail, light rail, bus, demand response • Hazards: Flooding, high winds, coastal storm surge, sea-level rise, high heat, extreme cold, winter storms

  17. SECTION 2 Charting your own path toward resilience

  18. Four Basic Steps Adjust course as needed

  19. Step 1: Getting Started • Understanding agency context • Engaging to plan and implement • Who should be involved? • Identifying opportunities and barriers to greater resilience

  20. Understanding agency context

  21. Step 2: Taking Stock • Assessing vulnerabilities and risk • Domains of resilience adoption • Processes that support adoption

  22. Assessing vulnerabilities and risk

  23. What assets are critical to your agency’s safe and effective operation? • Administration • Maintenance • Storage • Maintenance equipment • Station structures • Bus shelters • Elevators/ escalators • Pedestrian walkways • Platforms • Signage and graphics • Facilities &Stations • Buses • Cars • Trucks • Vans • Heavy rail cars • Light rail vehicles • Locomotives • Commuter rail cars • Cable cars • Ferries • Inclined plane • Vehicles • Guideway • Track • Special track work • Third rail • Catenary • Tunnels • Elevated structures • Right-of-way • Fixed Guideway & Systems • Train control • Electrification • Communications • Revenue collection • Utilities (water & sewer, electricity, heating and cooling) • Drainage • Ventilation Simplified Taxonomy of Transit Assets from TCRP Report 157, Figure 1.1

  24. Hazards Potential Impacts • High heat days • Very cold days • High wind/lighting • Heavy rain and flooding • Coastal storm surge and wave action • Sea-level rise • Winter storms • Earthquakes and Tsunami • Wildfires • Drought & Dust Storms • Buckled rails, overheated equipment • Frozen switches • Power failures • Washouts, scouring • Salt water intrusion • Guideway and equipment flooding • Track & tunnel misalignment • Vegetation loss impacting erosion control

  25. Sample Risk Matrix

  26. Consider the domains of adoption

  27. And the processes that support adoption...

  28. Step 3: Moving Forward • Creating a shared sense of need • Articulating a resilience vision, goals and desired outcomes • Selecting and prioritizing implementation strategies • Developing detailed action plans • Mobilizing commitment • Making change last

  29. Creating a shared sense of need A shared sense of need is critical to supporting change. People are slow to embrace change unless they believe the need is real and they know: • Why it’s important • What difference it makes • Their contributions count

  30. Selecting and prioritizing strategies Resilient Design Mitigation Adaptation

  31. Step 4: Monitoring Progress • Choosing performance measures and metrics • What makes a good metric? • Collecting and tracking data • Evaluating success and adjusting course as needed

  32. Evaluating success and adjusting course Where do we want to go? How can we improve? Resilience Vision How do we get there? How did we do? How do we measure success?

  33. SECTION 3 Thinking beyond your agency

  34. No agency is an island- Who do you depend on, and who depends on you?

  35. Identify Existing Regional Resilience Efforts • Look to Mayors, MPO, County executives, non-profit organizations, state efforts, others (may be more than one initiative) • Definitions of extreme weather risks, climate change scenarios • Vision and mission for resilience- time frames, action orientation- Capital? Operating? Addressing interdependencies? • No existing organization? consider forming your own begin one (see NCHRP Report 777)

  36. Get Involved • Make the case for transit as an essential partner for resilience • Contribute time, ideas, questions, answers, & collaborative, co-benefit projects • Participate in planning and carrying out regional exercises • Participate in seeking grants, prioritizing projects • Develop Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with diverse partners

  37. SECTION 4 Transit Resilience Toolkit and Database

  38. Improving Transit Resilience Database • Online one-stop resource • Searchable access to articles, reports, case studies, and tools documented and/or created as part of A-41 project • Keyword • Domain of adoption • Threat/hazard • Agency size • Agency name • Mode

  39. Resilience Tools – Some examples • Improving Transit Resilience Workbook • LACMTA Resiliency Indicator Framework • FTA Hazard Mitigation Cost Effectiveness (HMCE) Tool • FTA Coastal Flood Recurrence Interval Calculator for Sea Level Rise (Complement to HMCE Tool) • USDOT Vulnerability Assessment Scoring Tool

  40. To Provide Comments/ For Further Information Deborah Matherly | 202.303.2653 | dmatherly@louisberger.com Jon Carnegie | 848.932.2840 | carnegie@ejb.rutgers.edu

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