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Increase the resilience of the transportation infrastructure to climate-related stressors, such as changing recreation demands, fire, and water impacts

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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.,