South Florida Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Pilot Project

In 2013, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) sponsored climate resilience pilot studies in selected states and metropolitan areas in the U.S. The intent of these pilot studies was to examine approaches to \u201cconduct climate change and extreme weather vulnerability assessments of transportation infrastructure and to analyze options for adapting and improving resiliency.\u201d The Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), as lead agency on behalf of the region\u2019s three MPOs, and in partnership with other agencies, received one of the pilot projects. The project studied the southeast Florida four-county region. This report presents the results of this study. Five study objectives were adopted to guide the analysis: 1) provide adaptation analysis capability, 2) identify adaptation projects and strategies, 3) apply a vulnerability framework and provide feedback to the planning process, 4) enhance decision support and 5) strengthen institutional capacity. The study examined three climate change-related stresses: sea level rise inundation, storm surge flooding, and heavy precipitation induced flooding. Only roadway and passenger rail facilities on the designated regional transportation network were considered as part of this analysis. The overall approach to the vulnerability assessment was based on the FHWA\u2019s Climate Change and Extreme Weather Vulnerability Assessment Framework. A scoring system was used to rate each road and rail link in the region with respect to their vulnerability to permanent sea level rise inundation and periodic inundation from storm surge and heavy rainfall

Transit and Urban Form, Volume 1.

Transit and Urban Form Volume 1 examines, explains, evaulates and documents the relationships between land use and public transportation to facilitate cost-effective multimodal public transportation investment decisions

Guidelines for Development of Public Transportation Facilities and Equipment Management Systems

Guidelines for Development of Public Transportation Facilities and Equipment Management Systems documents and presents the research approach used in the development of the guidelines for the Public Transportation Facilities and Equipment Management System (PTMS)

Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual. Third Edition

This report provides guidance on transit capacity and quality of service issues and the factors influencing both. The manual contains background, statistics, and graphics on the various types of public transportation, and it provides a framework for measuring transit availability, comfort, and convenience from the passenger and transit provider points of view. In addition, the manual includes quantitative techniques for calculating the capacity and other operational characteristics of bus, rail, demand-responsive, and ferry transit services, as well as transit stops, stations, and terminals. The CD-ROM that accompanies the manual provides PDF versions of all the publication’s chapters for use on tablets and computers; links to all of the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) reports referenced in the manual; spreadsheets that help perform the calculations used in the bus, ferry, and rail transit capacity methods; and presentations that introduce the manual and its core material. The CD-ROM is also available for download from the Transportation Research Boards’s website as an ISO image