Infrastructure Technology Resources Consortium (ITRC) Seminar Series on Resilience and Sustainability of Urban Transportation Infrastructure.

Seminar #2 Resiliency Considerations in Transportation Infrastructure: The presentation provides an overview of a number of initiatives spearheaded by federal and state transportation agencies in the U.S. to build resilience. Furthermore, the use of advanced techniques in condition assessment, disaster data management and decision tools are discussed based on a number of recent case studies, and emerging areas prime for collaboration between academic and industry are highlighted. 

Speaker: Dr. Ali Maher, Professor and Director of USDOT Region II University Transportation Center (UTC) at Rutgers University

Host: Farhad Ansari, UIC Professor, Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering