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USDOT to host webinar on adapting to climate change using ITS

The USDOT's ITS Professional Capacity Building program will host a free Talking Technology and Transportation Webinar, Adapting to Climate Change Using Intelligent Transportation Systems on Tuesday, 10 May from 1300 pm to 1430 pm EST. Within the national framework for addressing climate change, USDOT says ITS is an important strategy to meet the growing need for climate resiliency and adaption. ITS technology uses a variety of sensors to monitor the highway network such as traffic volume and speed detectors
April 25, 2016 Read time: 2 mins

The USDOT's ITS Professional Capacity Building program will host a free Talking Technology and Transportation Webinar, Adapting to Climate Change Using Intelligent Transportation Systems on Tuesday, 10 May from 1300 pm to 1430 pm EST.

Within the national framework for addressing climate change, USDOT says ITS is an important strategy to meet the growing need for climate resiliency and adaption. ITS technology uses a variety of sensors to monitor the highway network such as traffic volume and speed detectors, cameras, pavement, and weather monitoring systems, which communicate continuously with a centralised transportation management centre (TMC).

New sensor technology and applications are being developed to help identify vulnerable regions and transportation routes that are subject to flooding, fog, smoke, high winds, ice, damaged pavement, and bridge weight restrictions. This approach will not only require new sensing capabilities from the field, but also a means of identifying alternate routes and/or transportation modes.

The webinar speakers will touch on all of these components in order to illustrate new approaches to building transportation resiliency and adapting to climate change.

Participants will gain a better understanding of the need for expanded transportation system monitoring to keep up with severe weather disruptions associated with climate change; Learn the latest technologies associated with ITS that monitor the transportation network and critical infrastructure; Gain a clearer understanding of how transportation system managers and TMCs are using new sensor technology to improve their operations; Gain an understanding of how to plan for climate change using ITS.

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