190 N Independence Mall W
Philadelphia, PA 19106
USA
The fourth in an ongoing “Climate Adaptation Forum” series held three or four times per year.
Networking and Coffee from 9:00, Networking Lunch from Noon to 1:00
Extreme weather events and other natural disasters threaten the operations and the capital assets of transit systems across the country. Billions of dollars of transit assets — vehicles, track, equipment — have been destroyed by extreme weather events, halting service, sometimes for long periods of time. In a changing climate, the frequency and severity of these disruptions are expected to increase. Transit agencies can greatly reduce this cost and disruption by incorporating resilience into their systems.
DVRPC’s next Climate Adaptation Forum will take place on the morning of October 23, and focus on a recent study on how best to make transit systems resilient to extreme weather events. Jon A. Carnegie, AICP/PP, Executive Director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers, will open the forum by sharing the results of this study. He will be followed by representatives from PATCO, NJ Transit, SEPTA, and Amtrak who will discuss their agencies’ extreme weather resiliency and climate change adaptation activities.
To see the full agenda and register, visit DVRPC’s Ticketleap page. This event is free to attend, and continuing education credits are pending. Please contact Rob Graff at rgraff@dvrpc.org or 215-238-2826 with questions.