State agencies and businesses have been improving the resilience of transportation systems to climate change and extreme weather impacts. TRB will host a webinar on Wednesday, July 26, 2023 from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM Eastern that will highlight emerging evidence-based best practices on resilience planning and projects, resilient recovery, and resilience processes and programs. Presenters will focus on understanding vulnerability and improving resilience to climate change and extreme weather events impacting all modes of transportation. Presenters will also share efforts to integrate resilience in other aspects of the transportation sector, including design, engineering, planning, asset management, operations, maintenance, emergency management, and communications.Click to: REGISTER https://webinar.mytrb.org/Webinars/Details/1692
This webinar will support TRB’s Transportation Resilience 2023 https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/11-13-2023/trbs-transportation-resilience-2023#:~:text=Convened%20by%20TRB,%20Transportation%20Resilience,extreme%20weather%20events,%20and%20disasters. conference that will be held November 13-15, 2023 in Washington, D.C. This webinar is sponsored by TRB’s Standing Technical Committee on Extreme Weather and Climate Adaptation.
Registration is free for employees of TRB sponsors as well as Titanium and Cobalt Global Affiliates. The registration rate for all other attendees is $100. Sign into MyTRB.org https://www.mytrb.org/ to view registration information. Contact Patrice Davenport mailto:pdavenport@nas.edu?subject=Becoming%20a%20TRB%20sponsor%20or%20affiliate%20-%20webinars to inquire about becoming a TRB sponsor or global affiliate organization.
A recording will be sent to all registrants after the webinar.
Webinar agenda and presenters
1. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s (PANYNJ) resilience program and projects reducing climate change and extreme weather impacts – Joshua DeFlorio, PANYNJ
2. U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) resilience and climate change programs, new risk and resilience coalition – Heather Holsinger, U.S. DOT
3. TRB’s Transportation Resilience 2023 https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/11-13-2023/trbs-transportation-resilience-2023 conference – Mark Abkowitz, Vanderbilt University
4. Question and answer session moderated by Steve Olmsted, Arizona Department of Transportation
The first 60 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
1. Prioritize and evaluate new methods and their performance on resilience investments
2. Share approaches for integrating climate resilience into agency processes, design standards, and standards of practice
3. Develop common understanding of transportation resilience concepts and state of practice