Transportation system resilience
What we know
Climate change impacts the way we build, operate, and maintain transportation infrastructure. A warmer and wetter Minnesota causes risks to our roads, bridges, culverts, and pipes.
Why this is important
Minnesota’s climate is getting wetter and warmer. Extreme weather is already disrupting the transportation system. Projections show more extreme precipitation is on the way.
What we’re doing
- Supporting projects that make the transportation system more resilient through the federal Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation (PROTECT) program
- Transportation Resilience Report: Current Practices and Opportunities for MnDOT (PDF)
- Assessing vulnerability of bridges, culverts, and pipes to extreme floods
- Resilience research
2024 Resilience Improvement Plan
Minnesota’s climate is changing. How states react to this change is an evolving process. We assessed potential changes in climatic conditions, potential transportation impacts from those changes and potential consequences for the system and for users. The Minnesota Resilience Improvement Plan (RIP) provides opportunities to make our transportation system more resilient to climate change using regional approaches to mitigate risk.
Download fully accessible PDFs of the plan
- Resilience Improvement Plan with the appendices (PDF)
- Resilience Improvement Plan without the appendices (PDF)
- Resilience Improvement Plan executive summary (PDF)
Download appendices
- Resilience Improvement Plan - All appendices (PDF)
- Resilience Improvement Plan - Appendix A: Acknowledgments (PDF)
- Resilience Improvement Plan - Appendix B: Exposure Metrics Used to Develop Hazard Ratings (PDF)
- Resilience Improvement Plan - Appendix C: Risk Vulnerability Assessment - Additional Figures (PDF)
- Resilience Improvement Plan - Appendix D: Public and Stakeholder Engagement Summary (PDF)
- Resilience Improvement Plan - Appendix E: Interactive Climate Risk Scores Map Guidance (PDF)
- Resilience Improvement Plan - Appendix F: FY25-28 PROTECT Formula Program Projects and PROTECT Discretionary Program Applications (PDF)