Abstract Manager

As climate change impacts are being actualized, transportation owners and operators are needing increasingly quantitative vulnerability assessments to understand, compare, visualize, and communicate the risks to their assets and users across multiple hazards and time scenarios. Stantec is collaborating with state transportation departments in the United States to create Resilience Improvement Plans that aid in identifying climate-related vulnerabilities and prioritizing solutions across transportation networks. In this presentation, Stantec will focus on the asset specific GIS-based vulnerability assessment web viewer they developed to provide asset level vulnerability scores based on exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity for multiple climate scenarios. The program has been successfully deployed to score over 10,500 structural assets and 10,000 miles of roadways for the Kansas Department of Transportation for nine natural hazards and two climate scenarios, and over 50,000 multimodal assets for the Connecticut Department of Transportation for four natural hazards and two climate scenarios. The results are visualized in an interactive web viewer to allow planners, engineers, and the public to understand vulnerability and develop actions to increase resilience. The results can facilitate resilience project development, resilience project supplementation, maintenance prioritization, and emergency response planning.