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Transportation Resilience:
Opportunities for Regional and Cross-Sector Collaboration
Steve Winkelman │May 11, 2017
Transportation Resilience:
Opportunities for Regional and Cross-Sector Collaboration
Steve Winkelman │May 11, 2017
Photo: Xinhua /Landov / Barcroft Media http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9644856/Hurricane-Sandy-live.html
Adaptation Practitioners workshop: Collaborating for Regional Resilience Ontario Climate Symposium 2017 Side event. York University, Toronto, Ontario
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Outline: Transportation Resilience
Introduction
Cross-sector interdependencies
Examples of transportation resilience solutions
Regional collaboration
Funding resilience
Closing thoughts
New resources
Discussion Questions
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Ottawa / Gatineau this week
J.D. Comtois, CBC, Chaudière Bridge
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Central Québec this week
Tyler Ward, CTV, Mille Isles, QC
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Montréal this week
CTV: Bridge to Ile Mercier off Ile Bizard
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Montréal this week
CBC:Galipeault Bridge next to Île-Perrot
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Montréal this week
Toronto Sun
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Montréal this week
@JustinTrudeau
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Overview: Transportation Resilience
Resilience is the capacity of individuals, communities,
institutions, businesses, and systems within a city to survive, adapt, and
grow no matter what kinds of chronic stresses and acute shocks.
- Dave MacLeod, City of Toronto [original source?]
Or,
If it’s all working
we can just go about our business.
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Transportation Resilience: Mechanical & Operational Solutions
NYC subway flooding after a 2007 storm. Source: MTA NYC Transit MTA NYC Transit has allocated nearly $90 million
toward raising ventilation grates and installing stair
pads at subway entrances. Source: MTA NYC Transit
Partial Solution
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Transportation Resilience: Deployable Solutions
Portable barriers (ACSE)
Inflatable tunnel plug (NYC)
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Transportation Resilience: Design and operational improvements
A 2005 storm in Toronto caused $647 million in damages, including destruction of this culvert (left, $4 milliion) in losses, which was replaced with a larger, more resilient
culvert (right). Source: Toronto Environment Office.
Photo credit for damaged culvert: Jane-finch.com. Photo credit for new culvert: City of Toronto Transportation Services.
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Transportation Resilience: Network efficiency and redundancies
Torontoist
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Transportation Resilience: Green Infrastructure
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Cross-sector interactions
Transportation systems are highly dependent
on other infrastructure systems working
Source: San Francisco 2014 Source: David MacLeod, City of Toronto
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Transportation is telecom dependent …
Source: European Telecommunications Standards Institute
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… and Telecom is transportation dependent
Source: San Francisco 2014
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Transport information & control systems: Vulnerable to climate impacts
Direct & indirect infrastructure damage
o Flooding
o Wind damage
o Heat
Power outages signal outages
Increased demand for information
services during extreme events
Source: FEMA
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Resilient Transportation should:
Protect transportation infrastructure itself
Protect transportation telecom infrastructure
Protect infrastructure that transportation telecom depends upon
Plan & design transportation systems to function during telecom outages
Source: Denso IT 2013
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Regional Collaboration: on Resilience
Infrastructure systems cross municipal boundaries, so
regional approaches to resilience make sense
Organize around climate change, transportation, land
use or hazard mitigation & leverage existing networks
o Southeast Florida Regional Climate Compact
‒ Modifying design standards for transportation infrastructure
located in vulnerable areas
o Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action
‒ Developing a model ordinance incorporating best adaptation
practices and providing draft language for land-use plans, zoning,
and other municipal policies
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Regional Collaboration: Integrated Resilience Solutions
Sacramento Region Transportation Climate Adaptation Plan
o Planning, design & maintenance strategies for infrastructure
o Incorporation of climate adaptation into transportation funding
decisions, long-term transportation & land use plan, and monitoring
San Francisco region
o Conducting climate resilience studies on impacts to specific
communities, coastlines and transportation assets.
St. Paul Minnesota, Capitol Region Watershed District,
Metropolitan Council : Greening the Greenline
o 11 mile light rail system, 111 acre drainage area (highly developed)
o Rain gardens, stormwater planters, infiltration trenches, 1,000 trees
over 5 miles of tree trenches -- reduces runoff by more than 50%
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Research and Technical Assistance on Transportation Resilience
US FHWA Climate Change Resilience Efforts
o Guidance on highways in river and coastal environments
o Adaptation Framework
o Pilots: 24 state, regional, local
o Research:
‒ Transportation Engineering
‒ Green Infrastructure
‒ Hurricane Sandy
‒ Gulf Coast Study
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FHWA climate adaptation pilots highlights of collaborative analysis
CA: adaptation evaluation & prioritization tool
CT : systems-level vulnerability assessment of bridges &
culverts
IA : methodology to integrate climate projections of rainfall
within a river system model
ME: depth-damage functions & adaptation design options
MD : delineating “Climate Change Impact Zone” to help
screen new project plans and designs
MA: high-resolution flooding projections
NY: environmental benefits multiplier for culverts
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Funding Transportation Resilience
There are a wide variety of financing, funding,
and incentive tools
o See ACT, Simon Fraser University: Paying for Urban
Infrastructure Adaptation in Canada (2015)
How can we leverage infrastructure funding?
How can we leverage GHG mitigation funding
(e.g., cap-and-trade revenues)?
Consider “Green Resilience” solutions that
mitigate GHGs and advance adaptation
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Ask the Climate Question
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Green Resilience
Increase
return on
investments
Expand
funding
sources
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Follow the Money: Adaptation, Mitigation and Infrastructure
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Connect the Dots
28 Renewables? M
New building
codes?
Resilient
Green Building
A M
A+M
Resilient Grid?
A
A+M
Resilient,
Sustainable
Energy
Transit Oriented Development?
M
Resilient & Sustainable
Urban Development
A+M
A Green
Infrastructure?
Energy & Water
efficiency
included?
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Hot off the presses: Transportation Resilience
Assessment of Climate Risks and Adaptation Practices
for the Canadian Transportation Sector
o Natural Resources Canada & Environment Canada
o Release this week
Infrastructure and Buildings Working Group, “State of
Play Report”
o Engineers Canada & Institute of Catastrophic Loss Reduction
o Release this week
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Discussion Questions
Top vulnerabilities?
Who needs to be involved?
Interdependencies that need to be factored in?
Regional rationale/benefit?
Possible tools/actions to engage, identify and
implement risk reduction?
Technical assistance needs?
Funding needs?
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Thank you
Merci