This guidebook provides the field with a process to assess and address climate change impacts on Forest Service transportation assets at the local and regional levels. The guidebook is intended to strike the balance between being specific enough to be implementable and flexible enough to accommodate a variety of needs and challenges. The target aud
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Livability of place is a central theme in developing concepts about transit ridership. In order to develop strategy for a compelling public communication campaign to increase transit ridership, this project frames the connections between livability and transit and offers a set of public campaign examples. A national survey taken of riders provides
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Automated vehicles (AVs) may significantly disrupt our transportation system, with potentially profound environmental effects. This policy brief outlines the mechanisms by which AVs may affect the environment through influencing travel demand, as well as the magnitude of these effects on vehicle miles travelled (VMT) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissi
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The following report was developed for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and summarizes a vulnerability assessment conducted for the portion of State Highway System (SHS) in Caltrans District 6. Though there are multiple definitions of vulnerability, this assessment specifically considers vulnerabilities from climate change. Cl
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There has been an increased interest in alternative aviation fuels to reduce pollutant emissions to mitigate climate change and diversify the fuel. The presented work examines the spray characteristics of two aviation fuels and one fuel candidate as part of a larger effort by the National Jet Fuel Combustion Program (NJFCP). A hybrid airblast press
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The following report was developed for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and summarizes a vulnerability assessment conducted for the portion of State Highway System (SHS) in Caltrans District 2. Though there are multiple definitions of vulnerability, this assessment specifically considers vulnerabilities from climate change. Cl
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This Summary Report and its associated Technical Report describe climate change effects in District 6. This document provides a high-level review of potential climate impacts to the district’s portion of the State Highway System (SHS), while the Technical Report presents detail on the technical processes used to identify these impacts. Similar repo
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This Summary Report is one of two documents prepared to outline climate change effects in District 4, the San Francisco Bay Area, the other being the Technical Report. This is the first of 12 such studies that will eventually cover each region in the State.
This Summary Report and its associated Technical Report outline climate change effects in District 2. This document provides a high-level review of potential climate impacts to the District’s portion of the State Highway System, while the Technical Report presents detail on the technical processes used to identify these impacts. Similar reports are
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This project makes a computer modeling study on vulnerability of coastal bridges in New York City (NYC) metropolitan region to storm surges and waves. Prediction is made for potential surges and waves in the region and consequent hydrodynamic load and scour at bridge piers in conditions of climate change/sea level rise (SLR) and change in hurricane
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This report documents an evaluation of Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Research and Technology Program’s activities on the implementation of the Eco-Logical approach by State transportation departments and metropolitan planning organization recipients of FHWA Eco-Logical funding. The evaluation team collected information on FHWA’s efforts t
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Transportation infrastructure is typically designed and built based on the assumption that the risks associated with climate and weather conditions at any given location do not change over time. Today, however, climate change is altering the risk of many types of weather extremes including the frequency and/or severity of high temperatures, heavy p
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The following report was developed for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to summarize a vulnerability assessment conducted for assets in Caltrans District 4. The assessment was developed to specifically identify the potential effects of climate change on the State Highway System in District 4. This is the first of 12 such studi
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This study provides general background on permafrost thaw, the implications for roadways, how future thawing can be projected, and what can be done to adapt to the impacts.
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