Tools to Incorporate Resilience into Transportation Planning
Date and Time: Monday, November 13, 2023: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: Great Hall
Presenter
Adair Garrett
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Biography
Adair Garrett is a third year graduate student in Transportation Systems Engineering in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on implementation of resilience capabilities, such as flexibility and agility, into the existing transportation planning processes. She also performs other practitioner-facing research, such as examining potential opportunities to incorporate resilience into project prioritization and selection. Her dissertation, partially funded by the National Center of Sustainable Transportation, focuses on combining resilience and sustainability assessment methods for rail infrastructure management. In 2023, Adair was an Eisenhower Transportation Fellow and an SDG Futures Fellow, which allowed her to expand her research to city government applications as well.
Co-presenter(s)
Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy
Georgia Institute of Technology
Biography
Zhongyu Yang is a PhD candidate at Georgia Institute of Technology. Zhongyu is in his last year of his PhD program. Zhongyu's research areas include automated classification of transportation asset conditions, applications of machine learning in transportation engineering, and pavement preservation optimization, among others.
Zhongyu Yang
Georgia Institute of Technology
Biography
Professor Amekudzi-Kennedy studies systems problems on the integrated built, natural, social and information environments to understand how we can make better decisions on built systems to promote resilient, smart and sustainable development. Her research currently focuses on the development and application of systems and sustainability engineering methods to promote sustainable development. Dr. Kennedy has authored extensively, developed undergraduate and graduate courses, and provided technical support for multiple international, national, state and local initiatives in these interdisciplinary areas. She is the founding Chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Committee on Sustainability and the Environment (within the Transportation & Development Institute). She served on the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (National Research Council) for 10 years, and is a member of the Transportation Asset Management Committee (Transportation Research Board). Dr. Kennedy serves on the editorial boards for the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, and Sustainability and Climate Change, and is co-founder of the Global Engineering Leadership Minor at Georgia Tech, a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a member of the National Academy of Construction.
Tools to Incorporate Resilience into Transportation Planning
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Resilience Processes and Programs