The Houston metro area has experienced three, greater-than-100-year floods in the last five years. There is a fine line between disaster generation and disaster prevention. Flood protection infrastructure alone does…

Figure 1: Section of a map showing rainfall totals in southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana from Aug. 25 through Sept. 1, 2017, resulting from Hurricane Harvey. Red areas received more…

Houston Metro buses during Hurricane Harvey. Photo: Houston Metro Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) allocated $277.5 million in Emergency Relief funding for public…