Creating a Resilient Port System in Texas: Assessing and Mitigating Extreme Weather Events – Final Report

Extreme weather events may disrupt port and coastal freight operations, resulting in direct and indirect economic losses to ports, supporting infrastructure, and reliant industry systems. Therefore, understanding the existing resilience capacity of the Texas port system to extreme weather events is necessary. To accomplish this, the weather hazards present along the Texas Gulf Coast are quantified. Stakeholder workshops, surveys, and interviews inform the authors' understanding of the current status of resilience practice in Texas ports. Frameworks for assessing the criticality, vulnerability, exposure, risk, and resilience of the Texas port system are developed. The economic impacts of port disruptions from hurricanes are quantified using input-output tables. A tool, PortRESECO, is developed to be used by port stakeholders to assess the resilience of a port facility and view the results of the economic analysis. Finally, recommendations are made for implementation to increase the resilience of coastal freight operations in Texas.

• Record URL:
  • https://library.ctr.utexas.edu/ctr-publications/0-7055-1.pdf
• Summary URL:
  • https://library.ctr.utexas.edu/Presto/catalogid=40267
• Summary URL:
  • https://library.ctr.utexas.edu/Presto/catalogid=40268
• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/62765
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Submitted December 2021; published May 2022.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Texas, Austin

  Center for Transportation Research
  3925 W. Braker Lane, 4th Floor
  Austin, TX  United States  78759

  Texas Department of Transportation

  Research and Technology Implementation Office
  125 E 11th Street
  Austin, TX  United States  78701-2483

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Bathgate, Kyle
  • Sun, Jingran
  • Pan, Shidong
  • Balakrishnan, Srijith
  • Zhang, Zhanmin
  • Murphy, Michael
  • Han, Zhe
  • Loftus-Otway, Lisa
• Publication Date: 2022-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Technical Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 231p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Disaster resilience; Economic impacts; Hurricanes; Risk assessment; Seaports; Weather
• Geographic Terms: Texas
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01848896
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA/TX-22/0-7055-1, 0-7055-1
• Contract Numbers: 0-7055
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jun 21 2022 10:28AM