PacTrans: Transportation Corridor Resiliency in the Face of a Changing Climate

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PI(s):

Keith Cunningham (UAF) 

Michael Olson (OSU)

Ben Leshchinsky (OSU)

Joseph Wartman (UW)

Funding:

PacTrans

  • Start Date: Dec 15, 2016
  • End Date: Jan 31, 2018

Project Documents

Project Final Report

Project Summary

Since 2012, we have been acquiring high-resolution lidar surveys of close to 20 rock-slopes in Alaska in support of Pactrans-supported studies of roadway safety. In this project, we will capitalize on this treasure trove of unique data to quantify how rockfall activity (magnitudefrequency of rockfall events) varies with changes in annual storm intensity from 2012 to 2016. We will then use this information to in conjunction with a landslide activity forecasting procedure we developed to investigate how the resiliency of transportation corridor may change in the future.