Regional Climate Projections
for the Transportation Sector
Extreme weather trends are changing. Understanding these changes is essential for maintaining transportation safety and reliability.
About the Southern Plains Transportation Center (SPTC)
The SPTC mission is twofold: to develop comprehensive, cost-effective, and imminently implementable solutions to critical infrastructure-related issues facing the transportation systems of the region and the nation and to prepare transportation professionals for leadership roles in professional and research careers in support of the nation’s transportation systems.
Learn more at http://www.sptc.org/.
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About the South Central Climate Science Center (SC CSC)
Established in 2012, the SC CSC provides decision makers with the science, tools, and information they need to address the impacts of climate variability and change on their areas of responsibility. The Center supports big thinking, including multi-institutional and stakeholder-driven approaches to assessing the impact of climate extremes on natural and cultural resources. Learn more at southcentralclimate.org.
Extreme weather, such as severe storms, droughts and floods, and extreme temperatures, pose multifaceted hazards to transportation safety and state of repair. Changes in underlying trends in temperature and precipitation are likely to be outside of the range of historical environmental conditions from which many transportation infrastructure design standards are currently based.
Regional Climate Projections for the Transportation Sector
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Understanding regional climatic hazards is the first step necessary to adequately adapt to these changes and reduce the potential social, economic, and environmental impacts on the transportation system.
This website showcases work funded in part by the Southern Plains Transportation Center (SPTC) which used multiple climate datasets to identify historical trends and future climate scenarios for the five-state region of Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico.
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