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Title:

Strategies in Designing and Managing Bridges and Structures to Enhance Transportation System Resilience

Accession Number:

01763677

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

This paper focuses on highway bridges and structures including tunnels, their importance within the transportation network, and efforts underway to address resiliency. Keeping the system functional throughout an extreme event cycle and beyond is also discussed. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) established several programs to increase the knowledge base for improving transportation system resilience, and to assist states.Disasters and disruptions continue to evolve in complexity, functional impact, economic cost, and in diversity of locations and types. Just focusing on weather, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) ‘Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters’ study reports the U.S. sustained 250 weather and climate disasters from 1980 to 2019. These weather impacts caused overall damages/costs reaching or exceeding $1 billion (Consume Price Index, CPI, adjusted to 2019) and with a total cost exceeding $1.7 trillion. (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/overview). Government and private entities at all levels are responding in various ways to effectively and efficiently respond to disasters and their effects. Within transportation, the Federal role is to coordinate with State Transportation Departments, Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) and with organizations representing the transportation field, such as the Transportation Research Board (TRB), and others.For conciseness, most of the discussions in this paper reference bridges. However, it is generally implied that the same concept applies to other highway structures unless specifically discussed separately.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AMR10 Standing Committee on Critical Transportation Infrastructure Protection.

Report/Paper Numbers:

TRBAM-21-00507

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

Authors:

Shen, Jerry
Rimal Duwadi, Sheila
Ger, Jeffrey
Soden, Derek
Wong, Waider
Chiarito, Vincent

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2021

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 100th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2021-1-5 to 2021-1-29
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board; Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References

Geographic Terms:

United States

Subject Areas:

Bridges and other structures; Design; Transportation (General)

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2021 Paper #TRBAM-21-00507

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 23 2020 11:08AM