The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration recently awarded California $631.4 million over the next five years through the new Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) formula program.
The PROTECT Formula Program helps states and communities better prepare transportation infrastructure for and respond to extreme weather events such as wildfires, flooding, and extreme heat. The program focuses on addressing at-risk highway infrastructure, making resilience improvements to existing transportation assets and evacuation routes, and resilience planning.
