Transit Agency Adaptation to Extreme Weather Events: Cataloguing and Modeling, Costs, Decisions and Behaviors

The project aims to develop greater detail about the decision process, costs, perceived risks and tradeoffs that transit planners and managers consider as part of addressing potentially damaging extreme weather events. The project also aims to work toward the development of decision tools and approaches that can more effectively respond to future weather related challenges that are often associated with climate change. Plana are to conduct a two-part, four-component project that collects different types of data and conducts different types of analysis related to transit adaptation to extreme weather events. Taken together the four components will provide substantial insights into the decision process - specification of costs, occurrence and severity of weather events, recognition of risks and risk perceptions, and the role that inter-organizational network structures play in information dissemination, coordination and support.

• Record URL:
  http://www.nctr.usf.edu/2012/08/transit-agency-adaptation-to-extreme-weather-events-cataloguing-and-modeling-costs-decisions-and-behaviors/

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $75000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTRT12-G-UTC22

  2117905018

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Center for Transit Research

  Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of South Florida
  4202 East Fowler Avenue, CUT 100
  Tampa, FL  United States  33620

  University of Illinois, Chicago

  College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
  412 South Peoria Street, MC348
  Chicago, IL  United States  60607-7065
• Performing Organizations:

  National Center for Transit Research

  Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of South Florida
  4202 East Fowler Avenue, CUT 100
  Tampa, FL  United States  33620
• Principal Investigators:

  Hendricks, Sara

  Sriraj, P

  Welch, Eric

• Start Date: 20120912
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20140831
• Source Data: RiP Project 33065

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Climate change; Costs; Data collection; Decision making; Information dissemination; Transit operating agencies; Weather conditions
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01494658
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Transit Research
• Contract Numbers: DTRT12-G-UTC22, 2117905018
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Sep 28 2013 1:00AM