Megaregional Transportation System Resilience Planning

This study seeks to better understand the economic impacts of natural disasters on metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and surrounding regions, and to identify potential opportunities to increase resilience from a financial and transportation infrastructure perspective.

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $91780
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747135

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Performing Organizations:

  Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2)

  University of Texas at Austin
  Austin, TX  United States  78712
• Principal Investigators:

  Loftus-Otway, Lisa

• Start Date: 20180901
• Expected Completion Date: 20200302
• Actual Completion Date: 20200302
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Disaster preparedness; Disaster resilience; Disasters; Economic impacts; Infrastructure; Metropolitan planning organizations
• Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01675042
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2)
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747135
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jul 16 2018 2:54PM