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Office of Planning, Environment and Realty Office of Infrastructure Adaptation to Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change AASHTO SCOH meeting Butch Waidelich, FHWA May 29, 2014 1 Resilience to Extreme Weather and Climate Change • • • FHWA Goal: Transportation system that continues to provide safe mobility upon which the economy and lives depend under current and future climate conditions. Objective: Systematic consideration of climate risk at transportation system and project levels. Approach: • • Research and Technical Assistance: Develop and share information and tools that State DOTs and MPOs can use to assess risk and improve resilience. Funding Eligibility: Funds can be used for climate adaptation. 2 Activities: System & Project level focus • Climate Resilience Pilots – round 2 (s,p) • Gulf Coast 2 (Mobile) (s,p) • Hurricane Sandy Follow-up and Vulnerability Assessment & Adaptation Analysis (s,p) • Central NM Climate Change Scenario Planning Project (s,p) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------• HEC 25 - Volume 2: Highways in the Coastal Environment: Assessing Extreme Events (p) • Hydrology efforts w/NWS, climate engineering analyses on Gulf Coast 2, Post Sandy project, New nationwide engineering case study project (p) 3 Technical guidance: HEC-25 Volume 2 • Highways in the Coastal Environment: Assessing Extreme Events • Technical guidance and methods for incorporating extreme events and climate change into coastal highway designs • Focus on sea level rise, storm surge, wave action • Coming soon (Summer 2014) 4 Tools Development and Deployment Home Page Module 1 Articulate Objectives Module 6 Monitor and Revisit Module 2 Identify Climate Stressors Sensitivity Matrix Module 3 Select Assets Criticality Guidance Module 4 Assess Vulnerabilities CMIP Climate Data Processing Tool Module 5 Integrate in Decision Making Engineering Case Studies Vulnerability Assessment Scoring Tool http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/climate_change/adaptation/ 5