01516088

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The Federal Disaster Mitigation Act (2000) requires state, local, and tribal governments to develop hazard mitigation plans as a condition of receiving pre- or post-disaster grants. The California Emergency Management Agency defines the hazard mitigation planning process as involving four steps: hazard identification, vulnerability analysis, hazard mitigation strategy, and implementation. Reviewing ten large California cities’ Hazard Mitigation Plans, this paper assesses the presence of transportation infrastructure vulnerability analyses. Among the cities studied, transportation infrastructure was inadequately studied. Policy modifications are suggested to incorporate a transportation hazard component into vulnerability analyses to better assess effects on transportation infrastructure. This issue has taken on greater urgency because of the growing recognition of the impacts of climate change on infrastructure vulnerability.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB80T Emergency Evacuation.

01503729

14-1212

English

11p

2014

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Climate change; Disasters and emergency operations; Grant aid; Hazard mitigation; Infrastructure; Policy analysis; Risk assessment

California

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Security and Emergencies; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-1212

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 27 2014 2:28PM