Identifying Surface Transportation Vulnerabilities and Risk Assessment Opportunities Under Climate Change

摘要: Transportation departments are beginning to recognize that adaptation for climate change must become an integral part of their planning efforts. However, staff members frequently lack the adequate local data, training, and guidance needed begin assessments. As a result, adapting has remained generally abstract lacks specificity identify potential system vulnerabilities, assess risk, prioritize responses. This report outlines geographic information system-based method with which transportation can vulnerabilities in multimodal surface systems. The city Portland, Oregon, is used as illustrative case study. proposed allows preliminary vulnerability identification, prioritization, impact assessment also be basis more advanced analysis scenario testing. research identifies describes data gaps other barriers t...