Transportation Planning, Policy and Climate Change: Making the Long-Term Connection

Project Description

Recent studies have found that the transportation sector in general is not considering adaptation to the potential impacts of climate change and variability. This project expands the research on climate change from the transportation planning and policy perspective, identifies best practice and planning scenarios, and provides references on the current state of transportation and adaptation to climate change.

The lack of guidance and relevant research constrains integrating climate change into the transportation planning and decision processes. The Houston area example illustrates the importance of communication and education for generating support and acceptance for climate change, first, as an issue, and second as a problem that needs to be dealt with in a systematic manner. Communicating science to decision makers and making sure they understand the implications, probabilities, and alternative solutions is a significant task. The main barrier may be a lack of understanding of how transportation policy works at the sub-national levels for climate change and how the issue competes for attention and resources with more traditional transportation problems.

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