Measuring Impacts and Performance of State DOT Resilience Efforts A Guide (2025) / Chapter Skim
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4 Implementation
Pages 38-43

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... The enactment of IIJA in 2021 and the creation of the PROTECT formula and discretionary grant programs pro vide funding to state DOTs and other entities, like MPOs, to support resilience planning efforts and projects to make transportation assets more resilient to natural hazards. Resilience planning requires state DOTs to consider the probability of events happening and analyze the potential impacts these events may have on the transportation system overall as well as on specific assets.
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From page 39...
... The quality of climate data can be variable. Collaboration within the state DOT across functional areas will ensure a clear understanding of available data related to past events, which can help identify resilience strategies and enable a project and investment prioritization process that ensures selected resilience investments support the achievement of goals and targets.
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... For example, identifying effective strategies associated with RPM 10, Strengthening Evacua tion Routes, would use data related to historical data of inland flooding as well as projections of future flooding. • Many transportation agencies employing criticality and vulnerability assessments can use these analyses to inform the selection of resilience strategies, including decisions about pri oritizing assets and making investment decisions.
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... A multidisciplinary resilience advisory team was also created. These working groups and advisory boards added a layer of accountability and helped define priorities, address potential barriers, and determine a path forward for the agency to measure climate resilience.
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... Assigning roles and responsibilities, not just individually but also according to perfor mance areas, ensures everyone understands the identified resilience strategies and investment priorities, and how those connect to project selection and support program and agency goals. State DOTs often consider resilience to be a crosscutting function and address it as such.
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... While most state DOTs have a separate office or area responsible for setting agency-wide data management principles, when leveraging data to help achieve resilience goals and targets, the management of necessary data might be delegated to staff responsible for conducting project scoring, for example. Therefore, communication between those responsible for agency-wide data management and those using and analyzing data is critical.
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