Publications and Resources: Resilience in Transport

Publications and Resources: Resilience in Transport Sector

The table below provides highlight of the published work in field of resilience in transport Sector.

Title	Publisher /year	Thematic area / Keywords	Description	Links
Resilient Mobility	TRL	General, Infrastructure	The Resilient Mobility Initiative promotes policy-making for reliable transport networks, resilient to future climate extremes. Traditonally, international action adapting to climate change has been focused on mitigating vulnerabilities in sectors affecting the value chains of food, water and shelter. Thus the transport secto- vital to th above fundam- was omitted.	Read more
Climate Change Risk Assessment for the Transport Sector (CCRA)	UK Government	Infrastructure, Climate change	The Transport Sector Report of the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) identifies the potential impacts of climate change on the UK transport systems. The CCRA is a national review of climate change risks governed by the Climate Change Act 2008.	Read more
Forecasting transportation infrastructure slope failures in a changing climate	UK	Transport, Climate change, Network security	The report targets at strategies of maintenance and management to make transport networks resilient. Potential changes in transportation modes and frequency of slope failures are forecasted.	Read more
Assessing Transport Network Security in the Face of Climate Change	FUTURENET Team/ Jan 2012	Transport, Climate change, Network security	FUTURENET is a multi-partner, multi-disciplinary research project, investigating the development of a network resilience assessment methodology. It considers changes in climate in 2050 and assesses their impact on principal transportation modes (road, rail and air). The research projct aims at the creation of a generic methodology. The project was completed in April 2013.	Read more
Financing the Resilient City	ICLEI/2011	Reducing Urban Risk, Financing	Thewhite paper by ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability) proposes an adaption strategy for urban areas to climate change, focusing on financial requiements. The report calls for mainstreaming planning processes, prjct goernace and deci-making in climate and disaster risk reduction. Specialized financial instruments should be developed and local capacity is to be expanded, according to the paper.	Read more
The London Climate Change Strategy	Greater London Authority/ 2011	Reducing urban risk, infrastructure	The key impacts of climate change on the city of London are identifed and recommendations to adapt are given.	Read more
Guidelines for Climate Proofing Investment in the Transport Sector: Road Infrastructure Projects	Asian Development bank/ 2011	Transport, climate change	Project teams are povided with a step-by-step methodological approach to incorporate measures for climate change adaptation in transport investments. The publication focuses on the project level and recommends to consider the impacts of climate change for the design of infrastructure planning and development policies to ensure appropriate resource allocation. Though the transport sector includes roads, waterways, rails, and airborne transport, this publication focuses solely on road infrastructure.	Read more
Building a Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Transport Sector	Asian Development bank/ 2009	Transport, Climate change, Low-carbon	Opening remarks by Haruhiko Kuroda, ADB President, at the Transport and Climate Change Seminar on responding to climate change in Asia and the Pacific, Copenhagen, Denmark.	Read more
Decision Making in a changing Climate. Adaption, Challenges and Choices	World Resource Institute/ 2010-11	Decision making, Climate change	relevant information, institutthat are expected to significantly strengthen the ability of any national government to make effective adaptation decisions related to climate change.	Read More
Maintaining Pavements in a Changing Climate	TRL/2008	Technical, road maintenance, climate change	This publication provides recommendations on how to reduce the risks associated with climate change by ensuring good construction and maintenance practice and using adaptive maintenance techniques. Various case studies demonstrating the impact that weather has on the highways are illustrated. Adaptive techniques already trialed, both in the UK and abroad, are used to illustrate the guidance.	Read more
Evaluating Transportation Resilience	VTPI/2014	Technical, Transport demand, Climate change	The main objective is to evaluate the transportation system’s ability to accommodate diverse, variable and unexpected demands with minimal risk.	Read More
Making Transport Resilient. Country Report: Ethiopia.	World Bank/2010	Infrastructure, climate change, report	This report is the output of the World Bank-financed study on Making Transport Climate Resilient for Ethiopia, which is a Sub-Saharan Africa initiative to respond to the impact of climate changes on road transport. The study is based on four climate scenarios selected by the World Bank consistent with the scenarios used in the study “Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change”.	Read More
Resilient Transportation systems in a post-disaster environment. A Case Study of Opportunities Realized and Missed in the Greater New Orleans Region	Gulf Coast Research Center for Evacuation and Transportation Resiliency/ 2010	Post-disaster, report	Based upon our research in Post-Katrina New Orleans, transportation resiliency is defined as a system’s ability to function before, during and after major disruptions through reliance upon multiple mobility options. The importance of a resilient transportation system becomes more apparent during disasters where multiple options for mobility are necessary for both passenger and goods movement due to the potential loss of one or more modes.	Read more
Adaptation to climate change in the transport sector	Klaus Eisenack,; Rebecca Stecker,; Diana Reckien,; Esther Hoffmann/ 2011	Transport, financing, climate change,	This paper identifies the literature that deals with adaptation to climate change in the transport sector by means of an extensive search, and presents a systematic review of the publications. The paper shows that a broad diversity of actors is relevant for adaptation in the transport sector – ranging from transportation service providers to public and private sector actors and private households. Most adaptations discussed in the literature require inputs in the form of technical means, institutional means, and knowledge. The paper concludes that the knowledge on adapting transport to climate change is still in a stage of infancy and suggests fields for further research.	Read more
National Infrastructure Protection Plan Partnering to enhance protection and resiliency	US Deptt for homeland security/ 2009	Technical, Climate Change, Risk on Transport	This report addresses the protection and resiliency of the critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) of the United States. It describes the authorities, roles, and responsibilities of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel, outlines the CIKR Protection Program Strategy, examines DHS partnerships, and evaluates the long term efficacy of the CIKR Protection Program.	Read more
Infrastructure Resilience to Disasters	Stephanie E. Chang/ 2009	Infrastructure Resilience	Questions such as: How will the failure of one bridge affect businesses throughout the urban area that rely on the transportation system? How will the failure of one infrastructure system disrupt other infrastructure systems? How can repairs following a disaster be planned so they minimize social and economic losses?; have prompted research that is, by necessity, interdisciplinary which is the focus of this report.	Read More
Climate change plans and infrastructure in Asian Cities	Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities and the Cities Development Initiative for Asia/2012	Climate Change, Infrastructure	This regional study of 900 cities gives an insight into climate change priorities in urban policies, plans and investments of Asian cities.	Read more
Structural resilience of core port infrastructure in a changing climate	RMIT University/2013	Climate Change, Resilience, Sea Ports	This document identifies key port infrastructure elements affected by climate change; the document investigates the deterioration mechanisms relevant to these structural components, and forecasts the rate of deterioration of structures over a period for which climate scientists could provide the necessary projections. The output is presented in the form of a software tool which addresses a number of deterioration mechanisms which affect port structures, according to six different climate futures. This will allow a port engineer to ascertain the changes needed in maintenance of port infrastructure over a 70-year time horizon.	Read more
Climate Change and Infrastructure, Urban System and Vulnerabilities	US Deptt of Energy/ 2012	Climate Change, Infrastructure	The central theme of the report is that vulnerabilities and impacts are issues beyond physical infrastructures themselves. The concern is with the value of services provided by infrastructures, where the true consequences of impacts and disruptions involve not only the costs associated with the clean-up, repair, and/or replacement of affected infrastructures but also economic, social, and environmental effects as supply chains are disrupted, economic activities are suspended, and/or social well-being is threatened.	Read More
Building Resilience into Fragile Transportation Network	Anna Nagurney/ 2011	Climate Change, Transport, Disaster Recovery	Presentation given by Anna Nagurney at the 90th annual meeting of TRB in 2011. The main aim of the presentation was to highlight the importance of Building Resilience into Fragile Transportation Network in an era of increasing disasters.	Read more
A guide to planning resources on transportation and hazards	TRB/2009	Planning and Administration, Operations and Safety, Aviation, Public Transit, Rail, Freight Transportation, Marine Transportation, Security	TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) jointly released “A Guide to Planning Resources on Transportation and Hazards”. The report highlights a framework for thinking about the stages of a disaster, and identifies some of the most current and innovative hazard-related research.	Read more
National Climate Change Assessment: Transportation Chapter	U.S. Global Change Research Program	Climate Change, Adaption, Risk, Financial Risk	The U.S. Global Change Research Program has released a report that has a chapter about the effects of climate change on the transportation sector—including on fixed node infrastructure, fixed route infrastructure, and different types of vehicles.	Read More
A stronger more resilient New York	New York City/2011	Planning, Climate Change	.	Read more
The role of transit in Emergency Evacuation	TRB/2008	Planning, Climate Change, Evacuation planning	This study was requested by Congress and funded by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the Transit Cooperative Research Program. It explores the capacity of transit systems serving the nation’s 38 largest urbanized areas to accommodate the evacuation, egress, or ingress of people from or to critical locations in times of emergency.	Read more