TS016: Economic Analysis to Support Resilience – Part B

Date: 11/14/2019
Time: 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Location: NAS 120

Session Description:
This second session on economic analysis includes presentations and discussion underpinning the importance of economic analyses. The session starts with views from the Office of the Secretary on U.S. Department of Transportation's current efforts to understand and incorporate the costs and benefits of resilience into long range planning and disaster recovery, followed with presentations on regionally assessing economic resiliency and making the business case for road and stormwater investments to combat sea level rise. The session ends with a review of economic tools for analyzing transportation projects incorporating resilience.

Moderator:  Thomas Bles, Deltares

Presenter Name: Alasdair Cain, United States Department of Transportation - Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (OST-R)
Title: U.S. DOT’s Tools to Augment Transportation Resilience and Disaster Recovery 
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Presenter Name: Frederick Treyz, Regional Economic Models, Inc. (REMI)
Title: Bouncing Back: Assessing Regional Economic Resiliency 
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Presenter Name: Cassandra Bhat, ICF
Title: Business Case for Road and Stormwater Investments to Combat Sea Level Rise 
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Presenter Name: Prerna Singh, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: A review of economic methods for analyzing resilience investments: challenges and opportunities 
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