Abstract: Transportation officials are increasingly faced with challenging decisions about how to design, plan, and manage infrastructure to confront changes in climate and extreme weather events. An understanding of which impacts affect infrastructure and at what point damage begins to occur is a critical step toward assessing overall vulnerability and risk. However, few resources exist to help managers and designers identify key thresholds and indicators of sensitivity to weather and climate impacts. This paper introduces a sensitivity matrix, a tool d...
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Topics: 
Environmental resource management
Risk analysis (engineering)