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Adaptation to Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change

Office of Planning, Environment and Realty Office of Infrastructure. Adaptation to Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change. AASHTO SCOH meeting Butch Waidelich, FHWA May 29, 2014. Resilience to Extreme Weather and Climate Change.

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Adaptation to Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change

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  1. Office of Planning, Environment and Realty Office of Infrastructure Adaptation to Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change AASHTO SCOH meeting Butch Waidelich, FHWA May 29, 2014

  2. Resilience to Extreme Weather and Climate Change • FHWA Goal: Transportation system that continues to provide safe mobility upon which the economy and lives depend under current and future climate conditions. • Objective: Systematic consideration of climate risk at transportation system and project levels. • Approach: • Research and Technical Assistance: Develop and share information and tools that State DOTs and MPOs can use to assess risk and improve resilience. • Funding Eligibility: Funds can be used for climate adaptation.

  3. Activities: System & Project level focus • Climate Resilience Pilots – round 2 (s,p) • Gulf Coast 2 (Mobile) (s,p) • Hurricane Sandy Follow-up and Vulnerability Assessment & Adaptation Analysis (s,p) • Central NM Climate Change Scenario Planning Project (s,p) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • HEC 25 - Volume 2: Highways in the Coastal Environment: Assessing Extreme Events (p) • Hydrology efforts w/NWS, climate engineering analyses on Gulf Coast 2, Post Sandy project, New nationwide engineering case study project (p)

  4. Technical guidance: HEC-25 Volume 2 • Highways in the Coastal Environment: Assessing Extreme Events • Technical guidance and methods for incorporating extreme events and climate change into coastal highway designs • Focus on sea level rise, storm surge, wave action • Coming soon (Summer 2014)

  5. Tools Development and Deployment Home Page Module 1 Articulate Objectives Module 6 Monitor and Revisit Module 5 Integrate in Decision Making Module 2 Identify Climate Stressors Module 3 Select Assets Module 4 Assess Vulnerabilities Sensitivity Matrix Engineering Case Studies Criticality Guidance CMIP Climate Data Processing Tool Vulnerability Assessment Scoring Tool http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/climate_change/adaptation/ 5

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