Climate Change
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>28 August, 2019 Aug 28
New Report on Small Town Evacuation Risks
A new analysis of 30,000 towns under 40,000 population identifies risks to evacuation from overcrowded roads or a lack of route options. From StreetLight Data, the anal (...)
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>24 January, 2017 Jan 24
Resilience and Transportation Planning
The Federal Highway Administration has released a new resource called Resilience in Transportation Planning, highlighting opportunities within the planning process to con (...)
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>04 June, 2015 Jun 04
RDO, MPO, and RPO Responses Sought to Climate Change Adaptation Survey
The University of Vermont Transportation Resource Center (UVM TRC) would like to invite NADO members and friends to participate in a brief online survey of regional plann (...)
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>19 February, 2015 Feb 19
Georgetown Climate Center: Adaptation Resources
The Georgetown Climate Center has analyzed how transportation agencies are incorporating climate adaptation into projects in 100 cases from across the country. Many of (...)
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>18 February, 2014 Feb 18
Handbook for Estimating Transportation Greenhouse Gases for Integration into the Planning Process
The Federal Highway Administration released the Handbook for Estimating Transportation Greenhouse Gases for Integration into the Planning Process in 2013. This publicatio (...)
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>22 November, 2013 Nov 22
Global Climate Change: Trends, Targets, and Rural Transportation Issues
Cynthia Burbank, National Planning and Environment Practice Leader at Parsons Brinckerhoff, delivered this presentation at the 2008 National Rural Transportation Conferen (...)
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>22 November, 2013 Nov 22
Primer on Climate Change and Transportation
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) has prepared this primer on transportation and climate change as an introduction to the is (...)
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>22 November, 2013 Nov 22
Washington State DOT Climate Change Site
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) Climate Change website describes the steps WSDOT is taking to address climate change and includes tools, resourc (...)
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>22 November, 2013 Nov 22
Climate-Change Policy and CO2 Emissions from Passenger Vehicles
This Congressional Budget Office issue brief examines the role of passenger vehicles (cars and light trucks) in the U.S. effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions. In parti (...)
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>22 November, 2013 Nov 22
Strategies for Reducing the Impacts of Surface Transportation on Global Climate Change: A Synthesis of Policy Research and State and Local Mitigation Strategies
This study, prepared for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, examines the challenges and implications that climate change poses for surface transportation (...)
