Harmonizing Climate Change Adaptation Planning for Transportation System Resilience: An Adaptation Guidebook for the State of Georgia
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Tennakoon, Mandani
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Developing long-term transportation plans is vital for the allocation of funds, project prioritization, maintenance scheduling, and preparation for potential future challenges, such as urban development and population changes. Nevertheless, decision-makers are finding it progressively more complex and demanding to devise long-term transportation plans due to the profound uncertainty of what lies ahead. Furthermore, as crucial systems like transportation become more interconnected, there is a higher possibility of catastrophic and unexpected hazards threatening systems with more frequency and intensity. Climate change-induced disasters pose a significant threat to vulnerable transportation systems worldwide. This thesis proposes an approach to integrate adaptation planning in disaster risk reduction through the development of an adaptation guidebook. The guidebook aims to support local communities and policymakers in identifying and addressing the climate risks and impacts. The objective of this writing is to discuss emerging adaptation frameworks, review adaptation strategies for transportation assets and propose a Climate Adaptation Guidebook for Transportation including context specific adaption measures for different districts in a state Department of Transportation using Georgia Department of Transportation as the case study – to address adaptation consequences of climate change related events to transportation systems.
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2023-05-01
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