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4 A DOT is uniquely positioned to take action [and] look at design scenarios, and has the opportunity to develop action solutions as an infrastructure agency.
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The CEO Role in Resilience 5 Promote the Importance of Resilience Relate resilience to the agency's mission statement. Each transportation agency has its own mission statement, but all missions involve safety and customer service.
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6 Resilience Primer for Transportation Executives Foster Preparedness and Resilience Conduct system and stress tests to ensure system resilience for system overloads and/or breakdowns. A resilient organization can anticipate problems and take corrective action before a potential disruption becomes disastrous.
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The CEO Role in Resilience 7 • Have the major events -- disasters, extreme weather impacts, and human-caused catastrophes -- experienced in your state or during your tenure at a state DOT affected your view of resilience? • How secure are your data and systems?
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8 Resilience Primer for Transportation Executives recovery)
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The CEO Role in Resilience 9 • What performance measures have you considered that relate to asset risks and potential damage related to events or catastrophic incidents? • How do you know if your efforts and plans are successful?
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10 Resilience Primer for Transportation Executives Common Challenges DOT leaders highlighted the following roadblocks to incorporating resilience into agency operations and decision-making frameworks: constrained funding, performance measures and key performance indicators (KPIs) , no ribbon cutting, and balancing long- and short-term perspectives.
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The CEO Role in Resilience 11 or other states may allow resources to be pooled among the agencies or states. Investment in resilience may become more attractive when investments are designed to reap multiple benefits, including community economic benefits.
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12 Resilience Primer for Transportation Executives No Ribbon Cutting Many resilience projects deal with capacity-building projects that attempt to make current assets more reliable and develop systems that can prevent future problems. Unfortunately, these projects do not have the same public support as more visible projects, such as road expansions or new interchanges.
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