SPR-696: Preliminary Study of Climate Adaptation for the Statewide ...

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Table 6. Areas for Future Research in Climate Adaptation for ADOT (Continued)TopicData Needs and FuturePlanningAreas for Future Research Collect information on future climate projections on specific regions to see whathappens with temperature and seasonality and precipitation at a very local districtlevel – when do certain impacts take place and what is the magnitude? Develop scenarios for adaptation. With the new MAP-21 legislation, there will be performance measures related to thelong-range transportation plan (LRTP). Developing performance measures withclimate impacts (mitigation or adaptation) could be a fruitful way to raise awarenessand provide linkage to other work within ADOT.DETAILED FINDINGS – ONLINE SURVEY QUESTIONNAIREThis section discusses findings in more detail, and communicates themes gleaned from thesurvey responses. The specific findings described here support the summary findings.Survey PopulationThe online survey was open between August 16 and September 6, 2012. The initial e-mailinvitation was sent on August 16, and one reminder was sent the week of August 20. Of morethan 300 ADOT employees who began to fill out the survey, 255 people provided completeresponses. Job categories were assigned to the respondents to identify the diversity of job typesrepresented in these data.Figure 8 illustrates that employees from ADOT’s Design and Engineering Departments representthe largest group of survey respondents (29 percent), while Administration and Communicationsstaff are the second largest group (22 percent) and “Other” represent 20 percent. “Other”includes staff that did not fall in any other category, or staff who entered generic job titles thatdid not clearly place them in any of the other categories. Job title information was not amandatory field on the survey, so people who did not provide this information are included in the“Not Identified” category.Planning7%Other20%AdministrationandCommunications22%Not Identified9%Operations11%Design/Engineering29%Figure 8. Respondents by Job Type36
Relevance of Climate Change ImpactsQuestion 3 asked respondents whether or not climate change affects ADOT operations. Figure 9,which displays the Question 3 responses, shows that the majority of respondents believe thatclimate change is affecting ADOT operations. Additional highlights are summarized below: About 50 percent of respondents believe that in their current job function, climate changeis affecting ADOT operations, and that ADOT should have a role in planning for climatechange. Only 6 percent of respondents believe that ADOT does not have a role in consideringclimate change. The remaining respondents are split equally. About 22 percent are uncertain about theanswer to this question, and 22 percent believe that it is not relevant to their job function.60%50%40%30%20%10%0%Yes, and ADOTshould have a role inplanning for climatechange.Yes, but ADOT doesnot have a role inconsidering climatechange.UncertainNo, it is not relevantto my job function.Note: There were 253 responses to this question.Figure 9. Question 3 Responses(In Your Current Job Function, Do You Think that Climate ChangeIs Affecting ADOT Operations?)The relevance of climate change impacts to ADOT employees also is addressed in Question 5,which provides a matrix of potential impacts to the transportation system that might result fromclimate impacts or events, such as heat waves, early snowmelt, more frequent and severedroughts, and many others. This list of impacts was taken from the literature review completedearlier in this project. The question asks respondents to indicate whether, and how, these impactswould affect how they perform their jobs.Many of the climate impacts were deemed relevant by respondents. While the number ofresponses for each impact varied, the range of responses was small: between 193 and 206. For allimpacts but one (wildlife habitat), the number of “relevant” responses was greater than thenumber of “not relevant” responses.37
Page 1: Preliminary Study ofClimate Adaptat
Page 4 and 5: This report was funded in part thro
Page 7 and 8: CONTENTSEXECUTIVE SUMMARY .........
Page 9 and 10: LIST OF FIGURESFigure 1. ADOT Clima
Page 11 and 12: LIST OF ACRONYMSAASHTO ............
Page 13: ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThe authors are espe
Page 16 and 17: key climate-related impacts are pro
Page 18 and 19: transportation system in Arizona, t
Page 20 and 21: finally summarized the findings. As
Page 23 and 24: CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEWThis re
Page 25 and 26: Source: National Oceanic and Atmosp
Page 27 and 28: DroughtsDiminished water resources
Page 29 and 30: In 2008, the Transportation Researc
Page 31 and 32: Table 2. Projected Climate Impacts
Page 33 and 34: GovernorArizonaDepartmentof Transpo
Page 35 and 36: 21Table 3. Matrix of Climate Impact
Page 37 and 38: Table 3. Matrix of Climate Impacts,
Page 39 and 40: Climate Change Network contains a n
Page 41: states may invite experts from the
Page 44 and 45: The purpose of the focus groups was
Page 47 and 48: CHAPTER 4. DISCUSSION OF FINDINGSBy
Page 49: TopicCurrent ADOTResources for Clim
Page 53 and 54: 60%50%40%30%20%10%0%a.Short-term (l
Page 55 and 56: There is a “season” for putting
Page 57 and 58: Arizona State Legislature, the Gove
Page 59 and 60: convince the council members and el
Page 61 and 62: might be higher for certain precipi
Page 63: It would be useful to have an inter
Page 66 and 67: When designing new infrastructure,
Page 68 and 69: Metropolitan Transportation Commiss
Page 71 and 72: REFERENCESArizona Department of Tra
Page 73: Robles, M. D. and C. Enquist. 2011.
Page 76 and 77: University Corporation for Atmosphe
Page 78 and 79: While complete reports are not yet
Page 80 and 81: adaptation program development effo
Page 85 and 86: APPENDIX C. SURVEY RESPONSES BY QUE
Page 87 and 88: Table 8. Question 2B ResponsesRespo
Page 89 and 90: Table 9. Question 4B ResponsesRespo
Page 91 and 92: Relevance of Climate ImpactsPercent
Page 93 and 94: Table 10. Question 5B Responses (Co
Page 101 and 102:
Table 11. Question 6B Responses (Co
Page 103 and 104:
Table 12. Question 7 Responses (Con
Page 105 and 106:
APPENDIX D. INTERVIEW AND FOCUS GRO
Page 107 and 108:
FOCUS GROUP SIGN-IN SHEETTitleElect
Page 109 and 110:
esponses provided us with valuable
Page 111 and 112:
4. Which departments typically mana
Page 113 and 114:
Finally, if participants think of a
show all

SPR-696: Preliminary Study of Climate Adaptation for the Statewide ...

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?