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State and local governments and private infrastructure providers should incorporate climate change into their long-term capital improvement plans, facility designs, maintenance practices, operations, and emergency response plans. In fact, one of the recommendations from Transportation Research Board Special Report 290 is that climate change be incorporated in these plans. This will require that transportation providers work more closely with weather forecasters and emergency planners and assume a greater role in planning and emergency response. Moreover, adaptation also may become an important criterion both for determining the form of the system and prioritization of projects.

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Transportation Research Circular

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Climate change; Climate change adaptation; Disasters and emergency operations; Emergency management; Long range planning; Transportation operations; Transportation planning; Transportation system management; Weather forecasting

Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB

Aug 11 2011 3:31PM

• Adapting to Climate Change: Another Challenge for the Transportation Community
• Adapting Transportation to the Impacts of Climate Change: State of the Practice 2011. Introduction
• Climate Change Adaptation and Preparedness Planning for Airports
• Climate Change Impacts on Ports
• Early Signs of Climate Change: 2010 Flooding in Tennessee, Rhode Island, and Iowa
• Federal Highway Administration Activities Related to the Adaptation of Transportation Infrastructure to Climate Change Impacts
• International Scan on Climate Change Adaptation
• State Departments of Transportation Working to Adapt to a Changing Climate
• TRB Special Task Force on Climate Change and Energy Identifies Research Needs
• United Kingdom’s Experience with Climate Change Adaptation and Transportation