NCHRP Implementation Support Program. Pilot Test of Climate Change Design Practices Guide for Hydrology and Hydraulics

NCHRP Project 15-61, Applying Climate Change Information to Hydrologic and Hydraulic Design of Transportation Infrastructure, developed a proposed AASHTO Design Practices Guide of national scope that provides hydrologic and hydraulic (H&H) engineers with tools needed to amend current practice to account for future climate change. The guide addresses potential effects of climate change such as sea level rise and extreme rainfall events and will aid inland H&H and coastal engineers responsible for the planning, design, operation, and maintenance of transportation infrastructure to prepare for these effects. The guide provides a comprehensive framework for considering and, where appropriate, incorporating climate change into inland hydrology and coastal analyses. To the extent possible, the guide is independent of specific tools and data sets. Though it is applicable to the tools and data sets available today, it is not tied to them; the guide is structured so that it will remain relevant when new tools and data sets become available in the future. The objective of this implementation project was to conduct pilot tests in concert with several state departments of transportation (DOTs) to determine the effectiveness and ease of implementation of the Design Practices Guide produced in NCHRP Project 15-61.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=4858

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $250000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 20-44(23)

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Harrigan, Edward

• Performing Organizations:

  Dewberry Consultants LLC

  Fairfax, VA  United States 
• Principal Investigators:

  Esfandiary, Siamak

• Start Date: 20200930
• Expected Completion Date: 20220831
• Actual Completion Date: 20220831

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Climate change; Climate change adaptation; Coasts; Design practices; Guidelines; Hydraulics; Hydrology; Pilot studies; Plan implementation; Sea level; State departments of transportation
• Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01721962
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 20-44(23)
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Nov 4 2019 8:39PM