Approach
Increase the resilience of the transportation infrastructure to climate-related stressors, such as changing recreation demands, fire, and water impacts.
Tactics
- Identify changing traffic patterns and uses in relation to precipitation levels and seasonal distribution
- Identify roads prone to flooding based on their location (e.g.
- in riparian areas) as well as roads with insufficient culverts or that are located on unstable surfaces
- Do not rebuild damaged roads in kind
- but rather use specifications that account for climate-related changes (e.g.
- different levels and seasons of precipitation and use)
Citation
Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L.; Ho, J.J.; Little, N.J.; Joyce, L.A., eds. (2018). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Intermountain Region. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-375. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.,