Hillsborough Transportation Planning Organization Resiliency Toolkit
Client:
Hillsborough County
Location:
Tampa, FL
Project Type:
Climate Resilience
Market Type:
State & Local Government
Key Takeaways
Multiple Resiliency Scenarios Required
The resiliency toolkit included various solutions to address multiple coastal climate threats.
Transportation at Greatest Risk for Failure
Road networks are at risk from multiple climate impacts and require commensurate adaptations.
Need for Redundancy
Reliance on a single road or single resiliency approach will place populations at risk.
Resilient Analytics Provides Climate Adaptation Options for Coastal Transportation Systems
Transportation systems in coastal cities are vulnerable to a broad range of climate threats including coastal erosion, flooding, temperature variances and extreme storm events. In response, cities must develop a range of resiliency options, or toolkit, that can be applied to future projects, as well as the rehabilitation of existing projects. The Hillsborough toolkit effort focused on achieving this objective.
Resilient Analytics was the climate consultant in this effort to determine adaptation options for multiple road design scenarios. Challenges including coastal erosion, inland flooding, surface erosion, and high temperature effects were all part of the study. Resilient Analytics was tasked with developing options for each scenario that gave multiple price points and resiliency options that could be used for future planning.
Resilient Analytics developed a set of scenarios across six road types that covered each of the primary threats envisioned in the Hillsborough area over the next 20 years. The team developed a toolkit that provided multiple engineering-based options for each of the prototype scenarios. For each scenario, cost implications and development constraints were included to provide a full set of scenario parameters.
Solutions
Proactively assessing, planning for and adapting to major weather events and rising temperatures is essential for long-term sustainability. Stanley Consultants is leveraging Resilient Analytics to deliver data-driven solutions that prioritize human safety, safeguard communities and protect capital investments.
