Fires and floods are causing infrastructure damage worldwide, leaving low-volume roads particularly vulnerable. Roads that can be built or rebuilt efficiently, to quality standards, and with a durable driving surface will be most resilient to storm damage and reduce life-cycle costs. This webinar will present tools to help understand expected performances from wearing course materials on unpaved roads, how to blend different gravel sources to optimize unpaved road performance, and to select soil stabilization and dust control treatments that will produce a durable and climate resilient low-volume road driving surface.
Rural communities face unique challenges in providing connectivity and access to essential goods and services, including jobs, education, health care, and social services. This webinar will present guidance for defining and addressing these challenges.
Rapid change is altering how we plan, build, and manage intermodal passenger transportation facilities. Factors as diverse as a rise in telework and advanced air mobility change user expectations. Decision-makers will need to account for trends across modes, like automated and electric vehicles.
Benefit-cost analysis (BCA) can be used to screen and select projects funded by federal grants. The current narrow framework is insufficient to integrate the impacts of current policy emphasis. Researchers around the globe are experiencing similar challenges and opportunities. Environmental effects, active transportation health benefits, and social equity/income distribution are some of the considerations congruent with current federal policy emphasis. This webinar will cover the latest in BCA from the perspective of transportation agencies that require and rely on them and innovative practitioners who develop them.
Post-World War II houses, subdivisions, and commercial properties are being considered for eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Additional guidance is needed for determining eligibility for commercial properties that stand alongside suburban and exurban roadways. This webinar will aid practitioners in evaluating the potential significance of postwar commercial properties for National Register eligibility in compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.
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