Administration of Highway and Transportation Agencies. Transportation Climate Adaptation through Asset Management Prioritization of Resilient Routes

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) has identified, in the 2021-2026 AASHTO Strategic Plan, "improve asset performance and strengthening resiliency" as priority goals for the association and its members. With a future scenario of climate change, more intense and frequent storms, water and heat-related stressors along with sea level rise will continue to impact and accelerate the deterioration of transportation assets. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) has emphasized the need to incorporate resiliency into all aspects of transportation management. Specifically, the Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation (PROTECT) program has provided both formula and discretionary funding opportunities to help ensure surface transportation resilience to natural hazards through the support of planning activities, resilience improvements, community resilience and evacuation routes, and at-risk coastal infrastructure. With the PROTECT program and other initiatives by AASHTO and FHWA, significant advances are being made in vulnerability and criticality assessments and tools like the Resilience and Disaster Recovery (RDR) tool suite to support decision-making. While these resources are beneficial, state DOTs are faced with how to best use the “resilience toolbox” to integrate asset management priorities with resilient routes to prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and respond to and recover rapidly from natural hazard disruptions most efficiently. The objective of this research is to develop a framework that integrates resilient route planning with asset management goals to optimize transportation investment and performance. This would be accomplished by conducting a literature and research review on the current state of practice of how DOTs are focused on deploying asset management on identified resilient routes. With the best practices gained from the reviews, an application-based approach with examples and outcomes, and guidelines for asset management prioritization of resilient routes would be developed. The results of this research would inform the Transportation Asset Management Plans (TAMP) and State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) on how to best optimize expenditures along resilient routes. The information will also help MPOs and RPOs plan more effective resilient focused improvements.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5626
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Contract to a Performing Organization has not yet been awarded.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Proposed
• Funding: $500000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 20-24(148)

• 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:

  Weeks, Jennifer

• Start Date: 20240610
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asset management; Climate change adaptation; Disaster resilience; Evacuation; Ground transportation; Infrastructure; Routes
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Environment; Highways; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01905496
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 20-24(148)
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Jan 24 2024 3:11PM