Assessing critical infrastructure failures bolsters resilience against disruptive events, strengthens public safety, and maintains essential services vital for economic stability and societal functioning. TRB will host a webinar on Tuesday, July 16, 2024 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern that will deepen the understanding of critical road infrastructure failures’ transportation and social implications, including human casualties, infrastructure damage costs, traffic operations, business disruptions, and community impacts. Presenters will share a methodology and process for evaluating statewide crash data, analysis of resulting truck travel pattern shifts, and flood impacts on vital roadway infrastructure.
This webinar is sponsored by the TRB Standing Technical Committees on Disaster Response, Emergency Evacuations, and Business Continuity, Critical Infrastructure Protection, and Trucking Industry Research.
Registration is free for employees of TRB sponsors as well as Titanium and Cobalt Global Affiliates. The registration rate for all other attendees is $100. Sign into MyTRB.org to view registration information. Contact Patrice Davenport to inquire about becoming a TRB sponsor or global affiliate organization.
A recording will be sent to all registrants after the webinar.
 
Webinar agenda and presenters

• Methodology and process of assessing the statewide crash data – Zizhao He, New York State Department of Transportation
• Analyzing truck travel pattern changes after critical infrastructure failure – Dan Murray, American Transportation Research Institute
• Assessing flood impacts on critical infrastructure using field evidence to inform guidelines for network risk assessment – Marianna Loli, Grid Engineers
• Question and answer session moderated by Rahil Saeedi, CPCS

The first 60 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions.
 
Learning Objectives
At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Analyze challenges associated with handing critical infrastructure failure from different stakeholders’ perspectives
• Reduce the risk or mitigate the negative impacts of hazards on critical infrastructure using the latest technology or organizational procedures

 
Professional Development Hours
Professional engineers (PEs) who register and attend the entire webinar as an individual will be awarded 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs). TRB’s webinar program awards PDH credits only to the registered individual, and not to other members of a group that view the webinar together. To be eligible for the credits, individuals must remain signed in for the entire webinar, including for any question and answer session following the presentations.
This webinar will be delivered as a scheduled – e-learning live event and is categorized within RCEP as Technical, Health and Safety.
Please check with your licensing board to ensure that TRB webinar PDHs are approved by your board.
TRB will report credits earned to the Registered Continuing Education Program (RCEP). Complaints about registered providers may be sent to RCEP, 1015 15th Street, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, D.C., 20005.
American Institute of Certified Planners Certification Maintenance Credits
This webinar is approved by the American Planning Association (APA) for 1.5 Certification Maintenance (CM) Credits. CM credits provide continuing education opportunities for AICP Certified Planners to continue their professional skills and knowledge. To receive CM credits, Certified Planners should visit the TRB event webpage on American Planning Association and register their participation.
Please make sure that you register for this session and log in using the link that TRB provides to your email account. We use this as your record that you attended this session. TRB only maintains the records of attendees who use their email address to log into the webinar and cannot verify attendance of individuals who view the webinar without personally logging into the session.  
If you have problems reporting your CM credits or have general questions about the CM program, please contact AICPCM@planning.org.
 
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