Mainstreaming System Resilience Concepts into Transportation Agencies: A Guide

The purpose of this guide is to provide transportation officials with a self-assessment tool to assess the current status of an agency’s efforts to improve the resilience of the transportation system through the mainstreaming of resilience concepts into agency decision making and procedures. The tool can be applied to a broad array of natural and human-caused threats to transportation systems and services. It focuses on such threats and describes actions to minimize the consequences of the related disruptions. The guide looks at resilience not only from an agency perspective (and thus focusing on the types of responsibilities these agencies have), but also from a societal perspective. This latter perspective introduces into the assessment such issues as the transportation-related economic, social, public health, and financial implications of system disruptions. The self-assessment tool is based on a resilience framework, the Framework for Enhancing Agency Resilience to Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards and Threats (FEAR-NAHT), hereafter referred to as the Framework. The Framework consists of ten steps. The self-assessment tool consists of a set of questions relating to the capabilities of an agency related to each step. The guide also provides guidance on how individual functional responsibilities in a transportation agency can be improved. Recommended actions are provided for: Policy development/agency leadership and management; Planning; Project development/engineering; System and traffic operations; Construction; Maintenance; Asset management; Emergency response/agency preparedness; and Public outreach/communications. Although each self-assessment step provides very specific recommended actions targeted for that step, the following themes run throughout the guide: Collaboration; Communication; Data collection and analysis; Hazard and threat assessment; Institutional capacity; Leadership; and Professional training and professional development.

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• Authors:
  • Dorney, Chris
  • Flood, Michael
  • Grose, Tim
  • Hammond, Paula
  • Meyer, Michael
  • Miller, Rawlings
  • Frazier Sr, Ernest R
  • Western, Jeffrey L
  • Nakanishi, Yuko J
  • Auza, Pierre M
  • Betak, John
• Publication Date: 2021

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 229p
• Serial:
  • NCHRP Research Report
  • Issue Number: 970
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 2572-3766

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communication; Cooperation; Disaster preparedness; Disaster resilience; Emergency management; Financial responsibility; Hazards; Leadership; Policy; Public health; Strategic planning; Threats; Transportation departments
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Security and Emergencies; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01768654
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309673990
• Report/Paper Numbers: Project 20-117
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 28 2021 8:39PM