Transportation Engineering and Safety Conference 2024

Transportation System Resilience is the practice of preparing and adapting to changing conditions due to failures caused by environmental or system factors.  When system interruptions occur, the transportation system is impacted, increasing delays on our roads or devastating roads and neighborhoods when dams and bridges fail.  In addition to the disruption in mobility, these failures can cause death, environmental hazards including increased emissions on the roadway and toxic fumes from fires or structure failures.   Incorporating regular inspection, maintenance and implementing sound asset management and risk prevention techniques, can go a long way to decrease cost of events or devastation from manmade or extreme weather disasters. 
In this session you will hear from DelDOT’s Director of Resilience and Sustainability, an associate professor from Penn State’s Department of Civil Engineering and a Transportation Resilience subject matter expert. This session will delve into nationwide case studies, pavement management techniques and statewide management and implementation of DelDOT’s Transportation Resilience and Sustainability program which includes infrastructure resilience, oversight of the Carbon Reduction program and the implementation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

Topic 1:  Case Studies on Infrastructure Resilience
Speaker: Aimee Flannery

Topic 2:  Large-scale pavement management considering reliability and traffic dynamics
 Speaker: Ilgin Guler

Topic 3: How Resilience is implemented at the State Level   
Speaker: Stephanie Johnson        

Topic 4: PennDOT's Resiliency and Sustainability Program 
Speaker: Nicholas Vivian