Anticipating Climate Change

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is a bistate agency that conceives, builds, operates, and maintains infrastructure critical to the trade and transportation network of the New York City metropolitan area. These facilities include America's busiest airport system, marine terminals and ports, the Port Authority Trans-Hudson rail system, six tunnels and bridges linking New York and New Jersey the Port Authority Bus Terminal, in Manhattan, and the World Trade Center. For more than eight decades, the Port Authority has worked to improve the quality of life for the more than 17 million people who live and work in New York and New Jersey, a region chat supports 8.6 million jobs and has an estimated gross regional product of more than $929 billion. The Port Authority has developed interim design criteria that will call on various departments within the organization to consider the effects of climate change in new construction or major rehabilitation projects.