Creating a Resilient Port System in Texas: Assessing and Mitigating Extreme Weather Events – Final Report

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• Creators:
  Bathgate, Kyle ; Sun, Jingran ; Pan, Shidong ; Balakrishnan, Srijith ; Zhang, Zhanmin ; Murphy, Michael ; Han, Zhe ; Loftus-Otway, Lisa
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Texas at Austin. Center for Transportation Research
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Technology Implementation Office ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Disaster resilience
  • Economic impacts
  • Hurricanes
  • Risk assessment
  • Seaports
  • Weather
  • Infrastructure
  • Landside operations (Ports)
  • Hazards Landside Operations (Ports)
  • Extreme Weather Events
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/TX-22/0-7055-1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas;United States
• Edition:
  January 2020 – December 2021
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of Texas at Austin. Center for Transportation Research
• Abstract:
  Extreme weather events may disrupt port and coastal freight operations, resulting in direct and indirect economic losses to ports, supporting infrastructure, and reliant industry systems. Therefore, understanding the existing resilience capacity of the Texas port system to extreme weather events is necessary. To accomplish this, the weather hazards present along the Texas Gulf Coast are quantified. Stakeholder workshops, surveys, and interviews inform our understanding of the current status of resilience practice in Texas ports. Frameworks for assessing the criticality, vulnerability, exposure, risk, and resilience of the Texas port system are developed. The economic impacts of port disruptions from hurricanes are quantified using input-output tables. A tool, PortRESECO, is developed to be used by port stakeholders to assess the resilience of a port facility and view the results of the economic analysis. Finally, recommendations are made for implementation to increase the resilience of coastal freight operations in Texas.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  0-7055
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/62765/dot_62765_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 10.03 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Ports Resilience ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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