NCHRP's Risk Management at State DOTs: Building Momentum & Sustaining the Practice provides guidelines for state DOTs to establish and maintain a risk management culture and practice.

The transportation industry continues to face a range of unforeseen and evolving challenges to transportation assets and operations that affect the performance and resilience of transportation systems and networks. For example, significant disruptions to supply chains and traffic patterns were outcomes of the unanticipated collapse of the Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland.

These disruptions substantially affected the performance of the region's transportation network as well as the regional economy, local communities, and international goods movement. The frequency and significance of such unexpected events have led transportation agencies to seek strategies for creating and sustaining a resilient risk management culture within state DOTs.

Included in the report are a detailed summary of relevant literature, the contents and results of a practitioner survey and industry workshop, and four agency case studies illustrating successful practices for establishing and maintaining risk management in practice. 

The report will be useful to state DOT executives and agency practitioners seeking to develop and sustain a risk management culture and practice at their organizations.

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