Extreme weather events cause damage and destruction of transportation infrastructure, leading to significant rebuilding costs, user delay, and inconvenience. Actionable and quantitative procedures can incorporate geotechnical resilience into the existing design and management framework of transportation asset life-cycles. TRB will host a webinar on Thursday, November 14, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Eastern that will cover current geotechnical asset resilience practices and advancements in the broader framework of transportation asset management (TAM), project planning, and life-cycle analysis. Presenters will share areas for development and practice improvement by incorporating performance of geotechnical features in pavement and structural contexts. Presenters will also explore procedures to incorporate resilience in geotechnical asset design and the assessment of geotechnical asset resilience during service life using monitoring and modeling of cascading events.
This webinar is sponsored by TRB’s Standing Technical Committees on Geotechnical Instrumentation and Modeling, Foundations of Bridges and Other Structures, and Mechanics and Drainage of Saturated and Unsaturated Geomaterials.
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

• Progress toward more resilient roadways: A review of Federal Highway Administration activities – Amir Golalipour, FHWA Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
• Resilient-based design and management of geotechnical assets: Improving reliability in uncertain conditions – Ahmad Alhasan, Applied Research Associates
• Modeling cascading failures of levees and power grid due to flooding in changing climate – Farshid Vahedifard, Tufts University
• Question and answer session moderated by Derrick Dasenbrock, FHWA

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:

• Identify FHWA activities related to resilience of pavement and embankment assets
• Speak to the concept of resilience-based design for geotechnical assets and practices
• Understand the utility and implications of modeling through the examples of cascading failures of levees and power grid due to flooding in changing climate

 
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.
 
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