CTP Resilience Guidance Outlines steps to integrate resilience and vulnerability assessments into the development of Comprehensive Transportation Plans (CTPs).

Purpose of the Guidance
This guidance serves as a resource to identify at risk and vulnerable transportation infrastructure early in the planning process. The guidance leverages NC resilience related data, local input and system disruption from prior extreme weather events to highlight locations and projects for resilience considerations in post CTP preconstruction scoping decisions.
The guidance aligns with broader NCDOT initiatives, including the recent NCDOT Resilience Improvement Plan (RIP). The RIP is focused on using systemic approaches to strengthen the resilience of North Carolina’s transportation network against floods, sea level rise and other natural hazards.

Holistic Planning: Creates efficiencies by integrating existing resilience findings and planning efforts when developing CTP projects.	Funding Opportunities: Incorporates resilience components into CTP projects that may expand eligibility for additional funding sources.
Savings: Proactively considers future hazard scenarios and building infrastructure to withstand these conditions can prevent costly damage, disruptions, and loss of life.	Stakeholder Buy-in: Planning organizations and other stakeholder awareness of resilience concerns can help to carry forward resilience considerations to other planning efforts.
Improved Response: Understanding existing resilience-related system deficiencies can help stakeholders to anticipate impacts and appropriately respond to emergencies.	Community Conduit: Expands resilience understanding among community-facing partners in the CTP process can expand the reach and dialogue about resiliency with and within communities.

Guidance Organization
The guidance is integrated into four of the seven-phase CTP development process. It directs users to incorporate resilience-related actions and considerations at specific points in the process – ranging from the inclusion of additional stakeholders on the Steering Committee to an evaluation of hazard impacts during the alternatives analysis. The blue boxes in the Resilience Guidance Phases and Actions chart highlight the phases and actions for which resilience guidance documents have been developed.

Resilience Guidance Phases and Actions

PHASE 1: CTP Set-Up Initiate Study & Gather Data Establish Steering Committee	Include key resilience agencies and stakeholders in the Interagency Coordination process and as part of the CTP Steering Committee. Incorporate known resilience needs into the Community Understanding Report. Collect resilience data from the Resilience Key Resources
PHASE 2: Develop Vision Hold Initial Meetings Develop Community Vision Select Transportation Network	Send the Study Initiation Letter to resilience agencies and stakeholders. Include resilience questions in the Goals and Objectives (G&Os) Survey and use findings to develop resilience G&Os. Develop measures of effectiveness & performance targets for the resilience G&Os. When selecting the study transportation network, consider including roads that have known resilience issues.
PHASE 4: Analyze Alternatives Evaluate Constraints Evaluate Future Year Solutions	Use collected data to develop a map and identify existing resiliency deficiencies. Use collected forecast data to develop a map and identify future resiliencydeficiencies. Document findings on Project Sheets and/or in the Resiliency CTP Appendix. Develop a Resilience Map overlaying the recommended CTP projects with keyresilience data layers.
PHASE 5: Develop Plan Consensus on Draft Plan	Incorporate key resilience terms in the Plan Definitions. Conduct Resilence Team review of resilience related CTP materials.