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Designing Resilient Infrastructure for an Uncertain Future: When the 100 Year Storm Occurs Every 10 Years
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| Description: | Research is needed
on changing precipitation and weather patterns, and providing guidance for
airports on how to develop updated design guidelines taking climate change
into account. A number of airports have developed updated design guidelines
with new flooding maps taken into account for example. The research could
also examine how airports can justify the expense of designing infrastructure
to withstand storms that are based on outdated weather information, and
demonstrate they are not "over-designing" for purposes of obtaining
AIP grants.
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| Objective: | The objective of
this research is to provide guidance for developing airport design guidelines
that take climate change into account in the face of increased frequency of
extreme weather events and changing weather patterns including strategies for
justifying expenses related to resilient infrastructure.
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| Sponsoring Committee: | AV030, Environmental Impacts of Aviation |
| Date Posted: | 03/02/2021 |
| Date Modified: | 03/10/2021 |
| Index Terms: | Disaster resilience, Weather conditions, Weather resistance, Storms, Climate change, Airport planning, Airports, Floods, |
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| Subjects |
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Aviation
Design
Security and Emergencies
Environment
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