National Concrete Pavement Technology Center

Project description

While climate change manifestations such as extreme rains are considered a global phenomenon, its impacts tend to be regional and local as evident from recent hurricanes and tornadoes. Building transportation departments’ institutional capacity is the key to the management of adverse climate change effects. Much of the capacity lies within planning and design through operation and maintenance of the infrastructure. To quantify needed capacity building, state departments of transportation (DOTs) should establish the status of present infrastructure against the current climate and predict the status of a future infrastructure for projected climate change. The study will implement big-data analytics combined with machine learning approaches to quantify the current and future status of the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) infrastructure to provide short-term and long-term planning for the department capacity building with specific focus on pavement infrastructure.