The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has published a new Integrating Natural Hazard Resilience into the Transportation Planning Process handbook.
This resource was developed to help transportation professionals build resilience to natural disasters, extreme weather events, and climate change, and to address the mitigation of stormwater. Natural hazards may threaten lives, property, and other assets. Often, natural hazards can be predicted. They tend to occur repeatedly in the same geographical locations because they are related to weather patterns or physical characteristics of an area. The handbook provides options for improving transportation system resilience by weaving it throughout the long-range transportation planning process. The handbook also includes a forward on Resilience Improvement Plans, voluntary plans established by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
The intended audience for the handbook is transportation planners at State departments of transportation (DOTs), metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), public transportation operators, Federal land management agencies (FLMAs), Tribal governments, and regional transportation planning organizations (RTPOs) or other affected nonmetropolitan local officials with responsibility for transportation planning.
Additional resources on transportation resilience can be found at Publications - Resilience - Sustainability - Environment - FHWA (dot.gov) and Planning - Ongoing And Current Research - Resilience - Sustainability - Environment - FHWA (dot.gov)