The Real-Time Resilient Community
Using GIS and AI to anticipate disruption, coordinate response and accelerate recovery.
Event Summary
During emergencies, Public Works organizations become central to protecting communities and restoring essential services. Roads must be cleared, debris removed, facilities inspected, infrastructure damage assessed and crews deployed — often while conditions continue to change.
The final event explores how GIS, real-time information, remote sensing, field reporting, predictive modeling and AI can strengthen emergency preparedness, response and recovery.
Applications span severe weather, flooding, wildfire, earthquakes, extreme heat and infrastructure failure — including risk forecasting, resource allocation, damage detection, evacuation support, road closures, debris management, public notification and post-event recovery.
Key Takeaways
Attendees will learn:
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How to connect Public Works data with emergency management and public safety.
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How predictive analytics can support preparedness and mitigation.
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How imagery and AI can accelerate damage assessment.
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How to maintain a common operating picture during an incident.
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How to prioritize crews, equipment and vulnerable infrastructure.
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How to communicate location-specific information to affected residents.
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How information collected during response can support reimbursement, recovery and future resilience planning.
Resource Guide
Real-Time Resilience & Response Guide
Prepare the data, roles and workflows that let Public Works anticipate disruption, coordinate response and speed recovery.
Data you should have on hand
- Hazard and risk layers: flood, wildfire, heat, wind, seismic
- Critical facility, route and lifeline asset lists
- Road closure, detour and debris management plans
- Damage assessment forms and mutual aid agreements
- Live weather, sensor and field reporting feeds
Readiness checklist
- One common operational picture is shared with emergency management
- Closure and damage reporting works on a phone in the rain
- Debris and recovery tracking meets reimbursement requirements
- Roles, escalation and data ownership are defined before an event
- Public notification pulls from the same authoritative data
Questions to ask internally
- How fast can we produce a credible damage picture?
- Which assets fail first, and who needs to know?
- Are our recovery records reimbursement-ready?
- What did the last event teach us that we actually changed?
Next 90 days
- Build one shared incident dashboard and exercise it
- Deploy a mobile damage assessment form and train crews
- Run a tabletop on debris tracking and reimbursement
Metrics to track
- Time to first complete damage picture
- % of closures reported from the field
- Recovery cost documented vs. reimbursed
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