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Workshop 141

Reducing Risks and Costs of Climate Change: Preparedness and Adaptation in the Face of Increasingly Extreme Weather
Sunday, January 13, 2013 9:00AM - 12:00PM Signin to Reveal Location Workshop Environment, Maintenance and Preservation, Operations and Traffic Management, Planning and Forecasting

Marie Venner, Venner Consulting, presiding

Sponsored By:

International Activities (A0010)
Critical Transportation Infrastructure Protection (ABE40)
Maintenance and Operations Personnel (AHD15)
Climate Change (ADC70(2))
Climate Change and Energy (A0020T)
Climate Change, Energy and Sustainability Impacts on the Transportation Infrastructure (AF000(3))

In the scientific arena and at public infrastructure agencies, discussions on climate change have now evolved to permit identification of preventive measures combined with risk-based decision making to reduce climate change–related costs and risks. This workshop presents worldwide, state-of-the-art research and initiatives to address this issue.

Abstracts:

Title	Presentation Number
Workshop Introduction Marie Venner, Venner Consulting, presenter No abstract available	P13-6858
Quantifying Recovery Costs and Potential Proactive Adaptation Costs for Transportation Corridors or Whole Systems at State Department of Transportation Silvana V. Croope, Delaware Department of Transportation, presenter No abstract available	P13-5149
Learning from Postemergency Response Efforts at Massachusetts DOT Kevin Walsh, Massachusetts Department of Transportation, presenter No abstract available	P13-6859
Internalizing Extreme Weather Costs to Transport in Cost-Benefit Analysis Pekka Leviakangas, University of Oulu, Finland, presenter No abstract available	P13-5150
Cost-Effective Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Adaptation Strategies: Easy Places for DOTs and MPOs to Start Marie Venner, Venner Consulting, presenter No abstract available	P13-5151
Impact of Climate Change on World Bank's Investment Strategy Andreas Dietrich Kopp, World Bank Group, presenter No abstract available	P13-5152
Maryland SHA’s Risk Management Policy for Climate Change Adaptation Gregory Ian Slater, Maryland State Highway Administration, presenter No abstract available	P13-6860
Tools That Can Help DOTs Evaluate Infrastructure Investments and Transportation Applications: Improved Ways to Engage Communities Vincent Brown, Federal Emergency Management Agency, presenter No abstract available	P13-5153
Post Irene and Sandy: Addressing the Realities of Emerging Weather Trends; Defining Needs for Transportation Departments Elisabeth Kolb (invited), New York State Department of Transportation, presenter No abstract available	P13-5155
Determinants of Good Transport Crisis Management: Lessons from Tropical Storm Irene and 11 Cases Worldwide Claus Doll, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Germany, presenter No abstract available	P13-5156