Research Projects: Resilience in Transport Sector

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Research Projects: Resilience in Transport Sector

The table below provides highlight of the research work undertaken in field of resilience within transport sector.

Title Thematic area / keywords Description Links
Futurenet - Future resilient transport networks Infrastructure, Climate Change

A resilient transport network is accounting for technology, infrastructure and climate changes. The Futurenet research project, led by the University of Birmingham, aims at providing tools for assessment and planning of resilient transport systems.

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Real-time planning for resillient transport futures Technical, Planning

The interaction between transport policy and the economy, environment and society, aims at improving the effectiveness of transport networks at local, national and international levels in delivering sustainability.

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Road Owners Getting to Grips with Climate Change

Technical, transport, climate change

The research program aims at providing road authorities all across Europe with knowledge and tools to oppose climate change. In road management, design rules have to be adapted, data collection must be updated and risk management methods are to be developed.

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State of the art of likely effect of climate change on current roads, ENR SRO3 report, October 2009

Technical, road maintenance, climate change

This report shows how the predicted climate change will affect highways. When temperatures rise and precipitation increases, present design theory and construction techniques will have to be amended to accommodate for differences in climate.

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Alternative materials and methods to enhance resistance to climate change, ENR SRO3 report, January 2010

Technical, Road maintenance, Climate change

The report focuses on presenting different types of alternative base and sub-base materials potentially reducing the influence of climate change, especally deterioration of road pavement.

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Study of water effects on asphalt and porous asphalt, ENR SRO3 report, June 2010

Technical, Road maintenance, Climate change

The report provides an introduction to changes of pavements during climate change through moistured asphalt and increased rainfall. Specifically, mitigation tools of engineers are presented. Solutions include existing technology and climate change predictions.

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Climate Change Projections for Variables Affecting Road Networks in Europe, ENR SRO3 report, April 2010

Technical, Road maintenance, Climate change

Climate change projections affecting the long-term performance of road networks in Europe are presented. The projections are based on climate simulations by regional climate models showing two plausible future emission scenarios.

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Building a More Disaster and Climate Resilient Transport Sector in Papua New Guinea

Transport, Risk, Climate change

Detaild overview over the project's aims in developing suitable tools to evaluate and communicate the risks related to natural hazards.

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Transportation Network Resiliency: A Study of Self-Annealing

Disaster, Transport Resilience

This research proposes a conceptual framework to quantify resilience of transportation networks in order to provide reliable data to decision makers whilst investments.

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WEATHER Project


Climate change, Transport


The WEATHER project aims at analysing the economic costs of more frequent and more extreme weather events on transport and on the wider economy. The project explores adaptation strategies in the context of sustainable policy design.

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