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VTrans details flood‑focused tools and Protect plan benefits to Addison County RPC
Summary
At an Addison County RPC technical meeting, VTrans staff described the Transportation Resilience Planning Tool, the repeat‑damage web tool and a new resilience improvement plan that funnels Protect program funds to high‑risk locations and can increase federal funding shares for eligible municipal projects.
Otis, a VTrans staff member, told the Addison County Regional Planning Commission technical committee that VTrans’ resilience work “sort of goes across across the entire agency,” covering immediate response and recovery as well as planning, design and grant prioritization.
The Transportation Resilience Planning Tool, or TRPT, and the Federal Highway repeat‑damage web tool are the primary tools Otis described. The TRPT combines stream geomorphology assessments and other criteria to score road segments and structures for flood vulnerability and criticality. The repeat‑damage tool, Otis said, tracks sites with multiple federally declared natural‑hazard damages and currently covers the federal‑aid system including interstate, state highways and many class 1 and class 2 town highways.
Why this matters: Otis said VTrans created a resilience improvement plan under the Protect program (a resilience‑focused IIJA program) to identify high‑priority locations for investment. Sites…
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