Publications and Resources: Resilience in Transport

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Publications and Resources: Resilience in Transport Sector

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

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Resilient Mobility TRL General, Infrastructure

The Resilient Mobility Initiative promotes policy-making for reliable transport networks, restant to future climate extremes. Traditonally, international action adapting to climate change has been focused - vital to the above fundamental services- has been omitted.

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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 system. The CCRA gives a national review of climate change risks governed by the Climate Change Act 2008.

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Forecasting transportation infrastructure slope failures in a changing climate UK
Transport, Climate change, Network security

The report targets strategies of maintenance and management to make transport networks resilient. Potential changes in transportation modes and frequency of slope failures are forecasted.

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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.

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Financing the Resilient City ICLEI/2011 Reducing Urban Risk, Financing

The white 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, projcet governance and decision-making in climate change and disaster risk reduction. According to the paper, specialized financial instruments should be developed and local capacity is to be expanded.

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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.

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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 adaption measures to climate change in the transport sector. 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.

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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. ??????

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Decision Making in a changing Climate. Adaption, Challenges and Choices World Resource Institute/ 2010-11 Decision making, Climate change

Provision of information and institutional framework to significantly strengthen the ability of national governments to adapt effective decisions concerning climate change. ???

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Maintaining Pavements in a Changing Climate TRL/2008 Technical, road maintenance, climate change

Recommendations on how to reduce the risks of climate change by ensuring good construction and maintenance practice are given. Various case studies demonstrate the impact of weather on highways. Adaptive techniques tested in the UK and other countres illustrative the proposed masures.

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Evaluating Transportation Resilience VTPI/2014 Technical, Transport demand, Climate change

Methods to evaluate the flexibility of transportation systems conerning unexpected demands with minimal riskare introduced. ??

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Making Transport Resilient. Country Report: Ethiopia. World Bank/2010 Infrastructure, climate change, report

This report elaborates on the initiative "Making Transport Climate Resilient for Ethiopia". This Saharan Africa initiative responds to the impact of climate change on road transport. The study is based on four climate scenarios consistent with the scenarios used in the research.

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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 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,

Extensiveliterature review elaborates on adaptation to climate change in the transport sector. It i suggested to need a broad diversity of actors,incluing transportation service providers, public and private sector actors and private households. Most adaptations require technical, institutional and knowledge inputs. Especially knowledge inputs have to be be developed.

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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. Authorities, roles, and responsibilities of the Department of Homeland Security are presented. The CIKR Protection Program Strategy, DHS ???partnerships, and long term efficacy of the CIKR Protection Program r evaluated.

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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.???????????????

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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 insight into climate change priorities in urban policies, plans and investments of Asian cities.

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Structural resilience of core port infrastructure in a changing climate RMIT University/2013 Climate Change, Resilience, Sea Ports

Key port infrastructure elements affected by climate change are identified. The deterioration mechanisms relevant to these structural components are investigated. A software tool quantifies the number of deterioration mechanisms which affect port structures, according to six different climate futures. This should enal port engineers to ascertain the changes needed in maintenance of port infrastructure over a 70-year time horizon.

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Climate Change and Infrastructure, Urban System and Vulnerabilities US Deptt of Energy/ 2012 Climate Change, Infrastructure

Beyond physical infrastructures, the value of services provided by infrastructures is emphasized. In consequence of disruptions, costs of clean-up, repair, and replacement of affected infrastructures and economic, social, environmental costs and disrupted supply chains could decrease social wellbeing.

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Building Resilience into Fragile Transportation Network Anna Nagurney/ 2011 Climate Change, Transport, Disaster Recovery

This presentation by Anna Nagurney at the 90th annual meeting of TRB in 2011 highlights the importance of building resilience for fragile transportation network.

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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 (TCRPThe report highlights a framework for the stages of a disaster and identifies related research.

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National Climate Change Assessment: Transportation Chapter U.S. Global Change Research Program Climate Change, Adaption, Risk, Financial Risk

This chapter of the U.S. Global Change Research Program deal with including on fixed node infrastructure, fixed route infrastructure, and different types of vehicles.

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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 s ?? 38 largest urbanized areas to accommodate the evacuation, egress, or ingress of people from or to critical locations in times of emergency.

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