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13 It's not always about a huge investment. It's about operating smart.
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14 Resilience Primer for Transportation Executives in standard O&M procedures. You may already include experience from maintenance and operations into your design and construction.
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How to Incorporate Resilience in Your Agency 15 and technological improvements that are current unknowns for the life span of infrastructure projects. • Scenario planning is increasingly being used by transportation planning organizations to help determine policies, strategies, or investments in light of uncontrollable or unknown future conditions.
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16 Resilience Primer for Transportation Executives • When agencies produce asset management plans that analyze future risk, it becomes easier to justify the use of the resources needed to build and maintain such assets. • Consider resilience in the prioritization process in asset management.
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How to Incorporate Resilience in Your Agency 17 ✔ Incorporate vulnerability in design manual • Florida DOT signs and signals are designed with mast arms along coastal areas instead of strain poles, to be more resilient and withstand hurricane wind loads. The agency is strengthening areas with sea walls and elevating roads where possible to mitigate flooding.
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18 Resilience Primer for Transportation Executives ✔ Use maintenance data to identify vulnerable areas • The Oregon DOT uses maintenance dispatch data and weather-related data to map areas within its system most vulnerable to climate impacts. Maintenance personnel are able to identify locations susceptible to weather or other conditions that need to be monitored more closely over time.
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How to Incorporate Resilience in Your Agency 19 ✔ Establish coordinated processes and procedures • The Colorado DOT established a flood recovery office to coordinate and oversee recovery and resilience efforts after the 2013 floods. ✔ Incorporate risk into recovery • The Colorado DOT adopted a process for its flood emergency relief program on the basis of risk assessment, to justify resilience and mitigation projects at locations that suffered severe damage from the floods.
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20 Resilience Primer for Transportation Executives the agency shows benefits, such as savings/cost avoidance down the line, consistent with its goals. ✔ Use materials that better address current and future conditions • In the City of Los Angeles, streets covered with reflective paint were 10 to 15 degrees cooler on average than streets not covered.
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How to Incorporate Resilience in Your Agency 21 • How we are working to reduce disruptions and improve safety. No doubt your agency has communications about emergency readiness, response, and recovery built into overall communications and public outreach.
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22 Resilience Primer for Transportation Executives organizations. Establishing and sustaining cybersecurity requires a CEO's active -- and visible -- support.
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