Table 2.1 Policy Options for Adapting Transportation to Climate Change Identified in Other Sources
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Policy Categories
Policy Overview
Policy Description
Research
Develop appropriate model outputs
Develop methods for translating climate change modeling outputs that specifically account for climate change scenarios and different geographies. Integrate climate data and projections, including higher resolution of climate models for regional and sub-regional studies, and more information about the likelihood and extent of extreme events.
Research
Interdisciplinary research
Provide ongoing support for climate research. Conduct interdisciplinary research that engages both the transportation and climate research communities. Climate research should include the needs of transportation decision-makers.
Research
Monitoring technologies
Federal and other research programs should develop monitoring technologies that provide advance warning of impending failures due to weather/climate.
Research
Establish data clearinghouse
NOAA, DOT, and USGS should establish a climate change and transportation clearinghouse on mitigation and adaptation in transportation. FEMA should reevaluate/update the National Flood Insurance Program and its maps to account for climate impacts.
Research
Inventory assets
Provide guidance and technical assistance on vulnerable infrastructure inventorying, including data collection methods and management. Federal/state/local governments and other infrastructure owners should inventory transportation infrastructure and locations that are vulnerable to climate impacts.
Research
Identify secondary impacts
Conduct research on demographic responses to climate change, land use interactions, and secondary and national economic impacts.
Research/Planning
Educate stakeholders
Understand stakeholder/community response to adaptation. Help citizens, communities, and industries understand the risks of climate change impacts and their role in adaptation efforts.
Planning
Support decision-making
Provide affordable modeling and adaptation planning tools to states and localities to help identify sectors at risk and assess vulnerable systems to support decision-making.
Planning
Coordination and collaboration
Facilitate and support cross-disciplinary coordination and collaboration among state and local agencies, governments, and the private sector, especially for cross-boundary impacts and adaptation plans. Develop policies to mitigate interstate impact and adaptation issues.
Planning
Emergency preparedness planning
Develop climate change strategies to integrate emergency response into operations and build on experience of those places where transportation is well integrated into emergency planning. Update federal emergency preparedness plans to include potential climate change impacts and set guidelines for state preparedness plans.
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