Improving the Resilience of Transit Systems Threatened by Natural Disasters, Volume 1: A Guide

This Guide offers practical steps and paths to resilience for transit systems of all sizes. Extreme weather events and other natural disasters threaten operations and capital assets of transit systems nationwide. Billions of dollars of transit assets have been damaged or destroyed by climate-related disasters in past decades, and millions of passengers have been deprived of reliable transit service for short or long periods of time. A resilient transit system avoids, minimizes and mitigates risk. It can absorb the impacts of disaster, recover quickly and return rapidly to providing the services that customers rely on to meet their travel needs. Many transit agencies are fighting back against weather-related waste of agency resources and taxpayer dollars –– and customers’ loss of service––by becoming more resilient. The Guide shows how to identify and implement appropriate resilience strategies to strengthen operations and infrastructure throughout an agency. While some resilience efforts may require long-term investments, most agencies can become more resilient through incremental adjustments in planning and small changes in what they do every day. The Guide also shows how to identify critical transit-related interdependencies and engage in broader regional resilience efforts. The associated database resilienttransit.org provides extensive resources and tools.

• Record URL:
  • https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/24973
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780309469388
• Authors:
  • Matherly, Deborah
  • Carnegie, Jon A
  • Mobley, Jane
• Publication Date: 2017

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 163p
• Serial:
  • TCRP Web Document
  • Issue Number: 70
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Disaster resilience; Disasters and emergency operations; Handbooks; Public transit; Risk management
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01659629
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309469388
• Report/Paper Numbers: TCRP A-41
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 8 2018 9:52AM