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From page 71... ... 71 Understand the Hazards and Threats (Step 5) This step considers the level at which and the procedures used by your agency to identify the potentially disruptive hazards or threats facing your transportation system. Read the entire page →
From page 72... ... 72 Mainstreaming System Resilience Concepts into Transportation Agencies: A Guide Factor 5.1: Have you established a working group for a system-wide assessment? To ensure that the analyses draw on and are driven by the most up-to-date information, practices, resources, and tools, it is important to include subject matter and agency experts in the self-assessment process. Read the entire page →
From page 73... ... Understand the Hazards and Threats (Step 5) 73 conditions that were considered during the design and construction of existing assets. Read the entire page →
From page 74... ... 74 Mainstreaming System Resilience Concepts into Transportation Agencies: A Guide Terrorist attacks against transportation systems worldwide have caused significant disruptions to system operations as well as fatalities and injuries often resulting in significant economic impacts. Although not as prevalent in the United States as in other countries, domestic terrorists have targeted U.S. Read the entire page →
From page 75... ... Understand the Hazards and Threats (Step 5) 75 The Basics of Modeling Coastal Flooding (National Climate Assessment n.d.) Read the entire page →
From page 76... ... 76 Mainstreaming System Resilience Concepts into Transportation Agencies: A Guide adopted a four-phase strategy in response: containment, eradication, recovery, and sustainment (U.S. Read the entire page →
From page 77... ... Understand the Hazards and Threats (Step 5) 77 The Basics of Climate Projections (IPCC 2014) Read the entire page →
From page 78... ... 78 Mainstreaming System Resilience Concepts into Transportation Agencies: A Guide The Basics of Climate Projections (IPCC 2014) (Continued) Read the entire page →
From page 79... ... Understand the Hazards and Threats (Step 5) 79 To be useful for a system-wide assessment of hazards and threats, the database should include asset location, condition, and use (see text box FHWA Recommended Asset Data for Vulnerability Assessments) Read the entire page →
From page 80... ... 80 Mainstreaming System Resilience Concepts into Transportation Agencies: A Guide The future likelihood of whether a hazard might occur introduces a level of uncertainty in the estimation. [Generally, likelihood is considered as the probability of the event occurring in a given year ranging from 0% (full confidence that the event will not happen) Read the entire page →
From page 81... ... Understand the Hazards and Threats (Step 5) 81 Example of Probability of Coastal Flooding in 2030 Under a Future Sea Level Rise Scenario, Boston (MassDOT-FHWA 2015) Read the entire page →
From page 82... ... 82 Mainstreaming System Resilience Concepts into Transportation Agencies: A Guide • Level 2: We have collected/developed GIS data showing the areas currently susceptible to all identified hazards. We have used available tools to project how hazards may change over the life span of our assets. Read the entire page →
From page 83... ... Understand the Hazards and Threats (Step 5) 83 The distinction among the levels of maturity is defined by the thoroughness, level of review, and availability of the documentation. Read the entire page →
From page 84... ... Maturity Factor Level 1 (1 point) Level 2 (2 points) Read the entire page →
From page 85... ... 5.5 Have you identified relevant hazard metrics by asset type? We have reviewed design manuals to infer critical thresholds applicable to each asset type. Read the entire page →
From page 86... ... Maturity Factor Level 1 (1 point) Level 2 (2 points) Read the entire page →
From page 87... ... Understand the Hazards and Threats (Step 5) 87 Recommended Actions to Maintain the Highest Level of Agency Resilience Capability The highest level of capability for Step 5: Understand the Hazards and Threats focuses on continual improvement in agency capability and actions to understand and quantify which hazards and threats affect your assets. Read the entire page →
From page 88... ... 88 Mainstreaming System Resilience Concepts into Transportation Agencies: A Guide Chapter 7 References FHWA. Read the entire page →
From page 89... ... Understand the Hazards and Threats (Step 5) Read the entire page →

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... 71 Understand the Hazards and Threats (Step 5) This step considers the level at which and the procedures used by your agency to identify the potentially disruptive hazards or threats facing your transportation system.