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Adaptation to Extreme Weather Events and
Climate Change
AASHTO SCOH meeting
Butch Waidelich, FHWA
May 29, 2014
Office of Planning, Environment and RealtyOffice of Infrastructure
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Resilience to Extreme Weather and Climate Change
• FHWA Goal: Transportation system that continues to provide safe mobility upon which the economy and lives depend under current and future climate conditions.
• Objective: Systematic consideration of climate risk at transportation system and project levels.
• Approach: • Research and Technical Assistance:
Develop and share information and tools that State DOTs and MPOs can use to assess risk and improve resilience.
• Funding Eligibility: Funds can be used for climate adaptation.
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Activities: System & Project level focus
• Climate Resilience Pilots – round 2 (s,p)• Gulf Coast 2 (Mobile) (s,p)• Hurricane Sandy Follow-up and Vulnerability Assessment
& Adaptation Analysis (s,p)• Central NM Climate Change Scenario Planning Project (s,p)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• HEC 25 - Volume 2: Highways in the Coastal Environment:
Assessing Extreme Events (p)• Hydrology efforts w/NWS, climate engineering analyses on
Gulf Coast 2, Post Sandy project, New nationwide engineering case study project (p)
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Technical guidance: HEC-25 Volume 2
• Highways in the Coastal Environment: Assessing Extreme Events
• Technical guidance and methods for incorporating extreme events and climate change into coastal highway designs
• Focus on sea level rise, storm surge, wave action
• Coming soon (Summer 2014)
Home Page
Module 2Identify Climate
StressorsModule 3
Select Assets
Module 4Assess
Vulnerabilities
Module 5Integrate in
Decision Making
Module 6Monitor and
Revisit
Module 1Articulate Objectives
Sensitivity Matrix
Criticality Guidance CMIP Climate DataProcessing Tool
Vulnerability Assessment Scoring Tool
EngineeringCase Studies
Tools Development and DeploymentTools Development and Deployment
5http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/climate_change/adaptation/