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| style="width: 124px" | Resilient Mobility
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| style="width: 124px" | Adaptation of transport to climate change in Europe
| style="width: 96px" | TRL
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| style="width: 96px" | EEA/2014
| style="width: 104px" | General, Infrastructure
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| style="width: 94px" | Climate change, Transport, Adaptation
| style="width: 357px" | Till date the international focus on climate change adaptation action has understandably been directed towards mitigating the vulnerabilities in those sectors which directly or indirectly affects the food, water and shelter value chain. However, little focus has been directed for the transport sector, which plays a vital role in the provision of the above mentioned fundamental services, which in itself susceptible towards aftermath of climate change. The Resilient Mobility initiative promotes actions and policy-making to develop robust transport networks, resilient to the future climate and extreme weather events.
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| style="width: 368px" | This report explores the current climate change adaptation practices concerning transport across European countries. It provides an overview on the challenges and states the adaptation action, a review of a number of initiatives in different countries, and conclusions on a potential way forward. The objective of this report is to stimulate discussions among the many different stakeholders concerned with transport adaptation.
| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.resilientmobility.com/publications/ Read more]'''
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/adaptation-of-transport-to-climate/at_download/file Read More]'''
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| style="width: 124px" | Response to Extreme Weather Impacts on Transportation Systems
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| style="width: 96px" | TRB/2014
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| style="width: 94px" | Disasters, Climate change,Extreme weather conditions
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| style="width: 368px" | The objective of this Synthesis Report is to identify common and recurring themes in state-level responses to extreme weather events that affect transportation in the United States—both operations and infrastructure—and to contribute to the development of a unified, accessible knowledge base for this wide-ranging topic area.
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_syn_454.pdf Read More]'''
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| style="width: 124px" | Learning from Megadisasters&nbsp;: Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake
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| style="width: 96px" | World Bank Training/2014
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| style="width: 94px" | Disasters, Climate change, Transport Development Policies
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| style="width: 368px" | The successes of Japan’s disaster risk management (DRM) system as well as the ways in which that system could be improved are reflected in the lessons drawn from the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) and presented in the initial reports from the Learning from Mega-disasters project.<br/>For the transport sector, especially chapters 4,16, and 20 as well as subsequent chapters are of relevance.
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/18864?hootPostID=a1a57f518f010420945ac02dfa98ffa6 Read More]'''
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| style="width: 124px" | Evaluating Transportation Resilience
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| style="width: 96px" | VTPI/2014
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| style="width: 94px" | Technical, Transport demand, Climate change
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| style="width: 368px" | Methods are presented to eva<span lang="en-us">luate the flexibility of transportation systems conerning unexpected demands with minimal risk.</span>
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm88.htm Read More]'''
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| style="width: 124px" | National Climate Change Assessment: Transportation Chapter
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| style="width: 96px" | U.S. Global Change Research Program/2014
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| style="width: 94px" | Climate Change, Adaption, Risk, Financial Risk
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| style="width: 368px" | Climate cange increases the total cost to the U.S. transportation systems and their users. Impacts can be reduced by rerouting, mode change, and a wide range of adaptive actions.
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/system/files_force/downloads/low/NCA3_Full_Report_05_Transportation_LowRes.pdf?download=1 Read More]'''
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| style="width: 124px" | How to Identify MITIGATION Potentials and ADAPTION Requirements of Transport System? Approach to Facilitate Consideration of CLIMATE CHANGE in the Transport Sector
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| style="width: 96px" | T. Schäfer/2013
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| style="width: 94px" | Mitigation, Adaptation, Transport, Climate Change
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| style="width: 368px" | Within the scope of the Sustainable Hyderabad research project, local impacts of climate change on the urban transport infrastructure are identified to ensure appropriate adaptation and mitigation plans. Secondly, as urban infrastructure contributes to GHG-emissions, fossil-fuel consumption is to be reduced through technical improvements. Thus, a methodology is developed to design an energy-efficient and overall sustainable transport system (Mitigation Planning).
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://conceptsandsolutions.ptvgroup.com/fileadmin/files_conceptsandsolutions/Downloads/4_References/PTV_Manual_CC_Impact_Analysis.pdf Read more]'''
 
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| style="width: 124px" | Climate Change Risk Assessment for the Transport Sector (CCRA)
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| style="width: 124px" | Assessing Public Transportation Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise: A Case Study Application
| style="width: 96px" | UK Government
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| style="width: 96px" | M. Oswald and C. Treat/2013
| style="width: 104px" | Infrastructure, Climate change
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| style="width: 94px" | Public Transport, Climate Change
| style="width: 357px" | The Transport Sector Report for the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA). It identifies the potential impacts of climate change on the UK transport systems, looking in more detail at some of the key impacts. The CCRA is a national review of climate change risks, which under the Climate Change Act 2008 is required to be carried out every five years.
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| style="width: 368px" | The climate change-caused sea level rise threatens transportation infrastructure. The report identifies vulnerable facilities and develops solutions to adapt planning practices. The focus lies on the Transit Indundation Modeling Method (TIMM) to railway and bus networks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.nctr.usf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/16.3_oswald.pdf Read more]'''
 
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| style="width: 124px" | Forecasting transportation infrastructure slope failures in a changing climate
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| style="width: 124px" | Structural resilience of core port infrastructure in a changing climate
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| style="width: 96px" | RMIT University/2013
| style="width: 104px" | Transport, Climate change, Network security
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| style="width: 94px" | Climate Change, Resilience, Sea Ports
| style="width: 357px" | The changing climate will influence the way the UK transport network performs. An aspect of this are the potential changes in the modes and frequency of slope failures, both natural and constructed. Forecasting the future behaviour of infrastructure slopes will allow development of maintenance and management strategies that will result in increased resilience of the of the transport network
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| style="width: 368px" | 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 over a 70-year time horizon.
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.nccarf.edu.au/publications/enhancing-resilience-seaports-structural-port-infrastructure Read more]'''
 
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| style="width: 124px" | Assessing Transport Network Security in the Face of Climate Change
 
| style="width: 124px" | Assessing Transport Network Security in the Face of Climate Change
 
| style="width: 96px" | FUTURENET Team/ Jan 2012
 
| style="width: 96px" | FUTURENET Team/ Jan 2012
| style="width: 104px" | Transport, Climate change, Network security
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| style="width: 94px" | Transport, Climate change, Network security
| style="width: 357px" | FUTURENET was a multi-partner, multi-disciplinary research project, investigating the development of a network resilience assessment methodology. It considers changes in climate and weather anticipated for 2050, and assesses the impact of these on the principal modes of transport (road, rail and air). It also seeks to create a generic methodology that might be applied to any transport network. The project finished in April 2013; the paper describes the work carried out to date, and proposed work for the future.
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| style="width: 368px" | 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 project aims at the creation of a generic methodology. The project was completed in April 2013.
| style="width: 51px" | Read more
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.resilientmobility.com/publications Read more]'''
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| style="width: 124px" | Climate Change and Infrastructure, Urban System and Vulnerabilities
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| style="width: 96px" | US Deptt of Energy/ 2012
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| style="width: 94px" | Climate Change, Infrastructure
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| style="width: 368px" | 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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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC8QFjAA&url=http://www.esd.ornl.gov/eess/Infrastructure.pdf&ei=WwFuUvesCcSCrge9sYB4&usg=AFQjCNHT6RxGb4WS2COIWd38jYokTdgNDQ&bvm=bv.55123115,d.bmk Read More]'''
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| style="width: 124px" | Climate Change Risk Assessment for the Transport Sector (CCRA)
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| style="width: 96px" | UK Government / 2012
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| style="width: 94px" | Infrastructure, Climate change
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| style="width: 368px" | The CCRA gives a national review of climate change risks governed by the Climate Change Act 2008.
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.resilientmobility.com/publications Read more]'''
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| style="width: 124px" | Climate change plans and infrastructure in Asian Cities
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| style="width: 96px" | Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities and the Cities Development Initiative for Asia/2012
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| style="width: 94px" | Climate Change, Infrastructure
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| style="width: 368px" | 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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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=http://www.cdia.asia/wp-content/uploads/Climate-Change-Plans-and-Infrastructure-in-Asian-Cities.pdf&ei=8Gd8U_zRF5WfugSHpoLYCw&usg=AFQjCNFXE2v0kwfe-Kuf6IZ7reofbXR9nQ&sig2=8FA2sTNnKm2daWmxiU4H-w&bvm=bv.67229260,d.c2E Read more]'''
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| style="width: 124px" | Resilient Mobility
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| style="width: 96px" | TRL/2011
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| style="width: 94px" | General, Infrastructure
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| style="width: 368px" | The Resilient Mobility Initiative promotes policy-making for reliable transport networks, restant to future climate extremes.
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.resilientmobility.com/publications Read more]'''
 
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| style="width: 124px" | Financing the Resilient City
 
| style="width: 124px" | Financing the Resilient City
 
| style="width: 96px" | ICLEI/2011
 
| style="width: 96px" | ICLEI/2011
| style="width: 104px" | Reducing Urban Risk, Financing
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| style="width: 94px" | Reducing Urban Risk, Financing
| style="width: 357px" | A white paper by ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability) provides a strategy on adapting urban areas to climate change, focusing on the required finance. The report calls for mainstreaming climate and disaster risk reduction in planning processes, project design and development decision making; the development of specialised financial instruments and the improvement of local capacity for redevelopment.
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| style="width: 368px" | The white paper by ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability) proposes an adaption strategy for urban areas to climate change, focusing on financial requirements. 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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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.resilientmobility.com/publications Read more]'''
 
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| style="width: 124px" | The London Climate Change Strategy
 
| style="width: 124px" | The London Climate Change Strategy
 
| style="width: 96px" | Greater London Authority/ 2011
 
| style="width: 96px" | Greater London Authority/ 2011
| style="width: 104px" | Reducing urban risk, infrastructure
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| style="width: 94px" | Reducing urban risk, infrastructure
| style="width: 357px" | This strategy identifies the key impacts of climate change on the city of London and the actions that are required to adapt.
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| style="width: 368px" | The key impacts of climate change on the city of London are identifed and recommendations to adapt are given.
| style="width: 51px" | Read more
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.resilientmobility.com/publications Read more]'''
 
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| style="width: 124px" | Guidelines for Climate Proofing Investment in the Transport Sector: Road Infrastructure Projects
 
| style="width: 124px" | Guidelines for Climate Proofing Investment in the Transport Sector: Road Infrastructure Projects
 
| style="width: 96px" | Asian Development bank/ 2011
 
| style="width: 96px" | Asian Development bank/ 2011
| style="width: 104px" | Transport, climate change
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| style="width: 94px" | Transport, climate change
| style="width: 357px" | This publication aims to present a step-by-step methodological approach to assist project teams to incorporate climate change adaptation measures into transport sector investment projects. While the focus of the publication is on the project level, an improved understanding of climate change impacts should also be used in the design of infrastructure planning and development policies and strategies 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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| style="width: 368px" | Project teams are povided with a step-by-step methodological approach to incorporate adaption measures to climate change in the transport sector focusing on road infrastructure.
| style="width: 51px" | Read more
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.adb.org/documents/guidelines-climate-proofing-investment-transport-sector-road-infrastructure-projects Read more]'''
 
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| style="width: 124px" | Building a Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Transport Sector
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| style="width: 124px" | A stronger more resilient New York
| style="width: 96px" | Asian Development bank/ 2009
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| style="width: 96px" | New York City/2011
| style="width: 104px" | Transport, Climate change, Low-carbon
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| style="width: 94px" | Planning, Climate Change
| style="width: 357px" | 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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| style="width: 368px" | After the tropical storm Sandy, the city of New York strives to strengthen its infrastructure - resilient against extreme weather events .
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.nyc.gov/html/sirr/downloads/pdf/final_report/Ch_10_Transportation_FINAL_singles.pdf Read more]'''
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| style="width: 124px" | Building Resilience into Fragile Transportation Network
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| style="width: 96px" | Anna Nagurney/ 2011
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| style="width: 94px" | Climate Change, Transport, Disaster Recovery
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| style="width: 368px" | 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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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http://supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/visuals/TRB_Panel_Nagurney_Talk.pdf&ei=IQJuUsDuJYLIrQeI-IGICQ&usg=AFQjCNHHshi6sbHHUPnxj1749RjGr97I9Q&bvm=bv.55123115,d.bmk Read more]'''
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| style="width: 124px" | Adaptation to climate change in the transport sector
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| style="width: 96px" | Klaus Eisenack,; Rebecca Stecker,; Diana Reckien,; Esther Hoffmann/ 2011
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| style="width: 94px" | Transport, financing, climate change,
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| style="width: 368px" | Extensive literature review elaborates on the adaptation to climate change in the transport sector. It is suggested to employ 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.
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.ioew.de/publikation_single/Adaptation_to_climate_change_in_the_transport_sector-2/?PHPSESSID=be5fa485a42f604853a5e068ba7bcdba Read more]'''
 
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| style="width: 124px" | Decision Making in a changing Climate. Adaption, Challenges and Choices
 
| style="width: 124px" | Decision Making in a changing Climate. Adaption, Challenges and Choices
 
| style="width: 96px" | World Resource Institute/ 2010-11
 
| style="width: 96px" | World Resource Institute/ 2010-11
| style="width: 104px" | Decision making, Climate change
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| style="width: 94px" | Decision making, Climate change
| style="width: 357px" | Recent extreme weather events including floods, heat waves, and droughts present a vivid image of the direction the world is heading towards. As climate change intensifies, more events like these, combined with long-term changes including rise in sea-levels, rapid melting of glaciers at the poles, and shifting of precipitation patterns — will have profound impacts on people, earth’s ecosystems and infrastructure. This publication explores five key elements—public engagement, decision-relevant information, institutional design, tools for planning and policymaking, and resources—that are expected to significantly strengthen the ability of any national government to make effective adaptation decisions.
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| style="width: 368px" | Focusing on public engagement and institutional framework for policymaking, this report aims at strengthening the ability of national governments to adapt effective decisions concerning climate change.
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://pdf.wri.org/world_resources_report_2010-2011.pdf Read More]'''
 
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| style="width: 124px" | Maintaining Pavements in a Changing Climate
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| style="width: 124px" | Forecasting transportation infrastructure slope failures in a changing climate
| style="width: 96px" | TRL/2008
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| style="width: 96px" | UK/2010
| style="width: 104px" | Technical, road maintenance, climate change
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| style="width: 94px" | Transport, Climate change, Network security
| style="width: 357px" | Climate change - and the extreme weather associated with it - is having a considerable impact on the UK's highways and pavements. 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. Also case studies demonstrating the impact that weather can have on highways are illustrated. Adaptive techniques already trialed, both in the UK and abroad, are used to illustrate the guidance.
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| style="width: 368px" | 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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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.arcc-futurenet.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Forecasting-transportation-infrastructure-slope-failures-in-a-changing-climate.pdf Read more]'''
 
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| style="width: 124px" | Evaluating Transportation Resilience
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| style="width: 124px" | Guidance Note on Recovery Infrastructure
| style="width: 96px" | VTPI/2014
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| style="width: 96px" | UNDP, UNISDR, IRP/2010
| style="width: 104px" | Technical, Transport demand, Climate change
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| style="width: 94px" | Infrastructure, Climate Change
| style="width: 357px" | Resilience (also called reliability and risk management) refers to a system’s ability to accommodate variable and unexpected conditions without catastrophic failure, or “the capacity to absorb shocks gracefully” (Foster, 1993). Security refers to freedom from danger or fear, which is an important goal of resilience. These concepts have many implications for planning in general, and transportation planning in particular (Berdica, 2002; Husdal, 2005). Resilience can be evaluated at various levels.
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| style="width: 368px" | This document provides cohesive knowledge for disaster recovery planners and policy makers, in the recognition of preventive measures being vital to reducing the more costly efforts of responding to disasters. Case studies illustrate disaster recovery experiences in order to deduct best practice models by placing a menu of options.
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| style="width: 124px" | Making Transport Resilient. Country Report: Ethiopia.
 
| style="width: 124px" | Making Transport Resilient. Country Report: Ethiopia.
 
| style="width: 96px" | World Bank/2010
 
| style="width: 96px" | World Bank/2010
| style="width: 104px" | Infrastructure, climate change, report
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| style="width: 94px" | Infrastructure, climate change, report
| style="width: 357px" | 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”.
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| style="width: 368px" | This report elaborates on the initiative "Mak-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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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.ppiaf.org/sites/ppiaf.org/files/publication/Ethiopia_Making-Transport-Climate-Resilient.pdf Read More]'''
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| style="width: 154px" | Alternative materials and methods to enhance resistance to climate change, ENR SRO3 report
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| ERA.net/2010
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| style="width: 109px" | Technical, Road maintenance, Climate change
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| style="width: 403px" | 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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| style="width: 53px" | '''[http://www.eranetroad.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=219&Itemid=53 Read More]'''
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| style="width: 154px" | Study of water effects on asphalt and porous asphalt, ENR SRO3 report,
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| ERA.net/2010
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| style="width: 109px" | Technical, Road maintenance, Climate change
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| style="width: 403px" | 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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| style="width: 53px" | '''[http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~evzard/P2R2C2/DeliverableN5.pdf Read more]'''
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| style="width: 154px" | Climate Change Projections for Variables Affecting Road Networks in Europe, ENR SRO3 report
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| style="width: 109px" | Technical, Road maintenance, Climate change
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| style="width: 403px" | 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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| style="width: 53px" | '''[http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~evzard/P2R2C2/DeliverableN6.pdf Read More]'''
 
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| style="width: 124px" | Resilient Transportation systems in a post-disaster environment. A Case Study of Opportunities Realized and Missed in the Greater New Orleans Region
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| style="width: 124px" | Resilient transportation systems in a post-disaster environment. A case study of opportunities realized and missed in the greater new orleans region
 
| style="width: 96px" | Gulf Coast Research Center for Evacuation and Transportation Resiliency/ 2010
 
| style="width: 96px" | Gulf Coast Research Center for Evacuation and Transportation Resiliency/ 2010
| style="width: 104px" | Post-disaster, report
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| style="width: 94px" | Post-disaster, report
| style="width: 357px" | 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.
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| style="width: 368px" | Transportation systems play a crucial role in responding to a region's pre-disaster evacuation and post-disaster recovery. Their ability to perform under adverse conditions in times of disaster depends upon the resiliencey of their fixed and moveable assets as well as their operational procedures before, during and after the event. For New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina was a "game changer"; severely impacting the city's transportation systems. This case study assesses the resilience of individual transportation systems.
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://evaccenter.lsu.edu/pub/10-01.pdf Read more]'''
 
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| style="width: 124px" | Adaptation to climate change in the transport sector
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| style="width: 124px" | Building a Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Transport Sector
| style="width: 96px" | Klaus Eisenack,; Rebecca Stecker,; Diana Reckien,; Esther Hoffmann/ 2011
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| style="width: 96px" | Asian Development bank/ 2009
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| style="width: 94px" | Transport, Climate change, Low-carbon
| style="width: 357px" | The 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. A substantial share of the identified adaptations follows a top-down adaptation policy pattern where a public or hybrid operator initiates action that affects private actors. The review shows that the existing literature either focuses on overly general and vague proposals, or on detailed technical measures. 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.
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| style="width: 368px" | 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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| style="width: 96px" | US Deptt for homeland security/ 2009
 
| style="width: 96px" | US Deptt for homeland security/ 2009
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| style="width: 357px" | 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.
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| style="width: 368px" | 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. and evaluated.
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/NIPP_Plan.pdf&ei=MmR8U-CQI8-8uATMmoDABA&usg=AFQjCNETiQ88AFAjuJIuhNSB7E7RjlUppQ&sig2=hX4QPLrTdEsk_LU5iImtgQ&bvm=bv.67229260,d.c2E Read more]'''
 
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| style="width: 124px" | Infrastructure Resilience to Disasters
 
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| style="width: 96px" | Stephanie E. Chang/ 2009
 
| style="width: 96px" | Stephanie E. Chang/ 2009
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| style="width: 357px" | Much of the early work on infrastructure in disasters was on understanding the mechanics of how components of infrastructure systems perform when subjected to extreme forces or conditions. This basic understanding was then extended to the performance of component assemblages. Studies ranged from field work to laboratory simulations with scale models and computer-based analyses. While these remain active areas of inquiry, new research themes have emerged to address some of the complexities of infrastructures, which include societal as well as technical issues. How, for instance, 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? Such questions have prompted research that is, by necessity, interdisciplinary which is the focus of this report.
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| style="width: 368px" | The cosequences of recent disasters demonstrate the vulnerability of urban infrastructure in th U.S. Infrastructure failure is often a primary cause of economic and human losses in disasters. Thus, improving the resilience of infrastructure systems in not only a technical problem, but it also has societal dimensions.
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.nae.edu/Publications/Bridge/17281/17548.aspx Read More]'''
 
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| style="width: 96px" | State of the art of likely effect of climate change on current roads, ENR SRO3 report
| style="width: 96px" | Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities and the Cities Development Initiative for Asia/2012
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| ERA.net/2009
| style="width: 104px" | Climate Change, Infrastructure
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| style="width: 94px" | Technical, road maintenance, climate change
| style="width: 357px" | This regional study of 900 cities gives an insight into climate change priorities in urban policies, plans and investments of Asian cities.
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| style="width: 368px" | 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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| style="width: 96px" | TRB/2009
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| style="width: 94px" | Planning and Administration, Operations and Safety, Aviation, Public Transit, Rail, Freight Transportation, Marine Transportation, Security
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| style="width: 368px" | TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) present a framework for the stages of a disaster and identifies related research.
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| style="width: 124px" | The role of transit in Emergency Evacuation
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| style="width: 96px" | TRB/2008
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| style="width: 94px" | Planning, Climate Change, Evacuation planning
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| style="width: 368px" | Transportation systems are part of the emergency mangement and evacuation of urban areas. This study provides extensive literature review on emergency transport.
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/sr/sr294.pdf Read more]'''
 
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| style="width: 124px" | Transit Cooperative Research Programme
| style="width: 96px" | RMIT University/2013
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| style="width: 96px" | FTA/2008
| style="width: 104px" | Climate Change, Resilience, Sea Ports
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| style="width: 94px" | Planning, Emergency, Evacuation planning
| style="width: 357px" | 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.
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| style="width: 368px" | The International Transit Studies Program (ITSP) is part of the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP). ITSP study missions has the following objectives<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>
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| style="width: 124px" | Climate Change and Infrastructure, Urban System and Vulnerabilities
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| style="width: 96px" | TRL/2008
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| style="width: 94px" | Technical, road maintenance, climate change
| style="width: 357px" | 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.
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| style="width: 368px" | 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 countries illustrate the proposed measures.
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://www.tsoshop.co.uk/bookstore.asp?FO=1265743&DI=602671 Read more]'''
 
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| style="width: 124px" | Climate change and London’s transport systems
| style="width: 96px" | Anna Nagurney/ 2011
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| style="width: 96px" | Greater London Authority/2005
| style="width: 104px" | Climate Change, Transport, Disaster Recovery
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| style="width: 94px" | Climate vulnerabilities, climate change
| style="width: 357px" | 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.
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| style="width: 368px" | This report describes some of the actions which will help reduce or eliminate the adverse effects of climate change. The report highlights that early action, especially at the design stage, can require little or no extra cost while ensuring that Londoners can travel comfortably and that infrastructure remains useable throughout its design life.
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| style="width: 51px" | '''[http://climatelondon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Climate-change-and-Londons-transport-systems.pdf Read more]'''
 
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| style="width: 124px" | ARISCC Adaptation of Railway Infrastructure to Climate Change. Final Report of UIC project ARISCC
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| style="width: 96px" | Roland Nolte; Christian Kamburow; Johannes Rupp/2011
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| style="width: 94px" | Adaption, Climate Change, Railway Infrastructure
| style="width: 357px" | 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.
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| style="width: 368px" | This publication focuses on an integrated management of weather and climate related natural hazards in a way that keeps and improves railway infrastructure performance and avoids or minimizes damage to railway infrastructure assets.
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| style="width: 124px" | Preparing a Comprehensive Mobility Plan (CMP) - A Toolkit (Revised)
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| style="width: 96px" | Institute of Urban Transport (IUT) India, , the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and UNEP DTU Partnership/2014
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| style="width: 94px" | Smart and Low Carbon Transport Planning
| style="width: 357px" | 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.
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| style="width: 368px" | The revised toolkit has a clear focus on climate change and sustainable development and takes forward the process of integrating the actions necessary for the transport sector as per the "National Mission on Sustainable Habitat," for which MoUD is the nodal ministry. The toolkit provides a clear guidance for integrating the inclusiveness agenda within the transport planning processes with a strong focus on integration of land use and transport planning bringing the CMP closer to the development plans/master plans of the city.
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Publications and Resources: Resilience in the Transport Sector

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

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Adaptation of transport to climate change in Europe EEA/2014 Climate change, Transport, Adaptation This report explores the current climate change adaptation practices concerning transport across European countries. It provides an overview on the challenges and states the adaptation action, a review of a number of initiatives in different countries, and conclusions on a potential way forward. The objective of this report is to stimulate discussions among the many different stakeholders concerned with transport adaptation. Read More
Response to Extreme Weather Impacts on Transportation Systems TRB/2014 Disasters, Climate change,Extreme weather conditions The objective of this Synthesis Report is to identify common and recurring themes in state-level responses to extreme weather events that affect transportation in the United States—both operations and infrastructure—and to contribute to the development of a unified, accessible knowledge base for this wide-ranging topic area. Read More
Learning from Megadisasters : Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake World Bank Training/2014 Disasters, Climate change, Transport Development Policies The successes of Japan’s disaster risk management (DRM) system as well as the ways in which that system could be improved are reflected in the lessons drawn from the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) and presented in the initial reports from the Learning from Mega-disasters project.
For the transport sector, especially chapters 4,16, and 20 as well as subsequent chapters are of relevance.
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Evaluating Transportation Resilience VTPI/2014 Technical, Transport demand, Climate change Methods are presented to evaluate the flexibility of transportation systems conerning unexpected demands with minimal risk. Read More
National Climate Change Assessment: Transportation Chapter U.S. Global Change Research Program/2014 Climate Change, Adaption, Risk, Financial Risk Climate cange increases the total cost to the U.S. transportation systems and their users. Impacts can be reduced by rerouting, mode change, and a wide range of adaptive actions. Read More
How to Identify MITIGATION Potentials and ADAPTION Requirements of Transport System? Approach to Facilitate Consideration of CLIMATE CHANGE in the Transport Sector T. Schäfer/2013 Mitigation, Adaptation, Transport, Climate Change Within the scope of the Sustainable Hyderabad research project, local impacts of climate change on the urban transport infrastructure are identified to ensure appropriate adaptation and mitigation plans. Secondly, as urban infrastructure contributes to GHG-emissions, fossil-fuel consumption is to be reduced through technical improvements. Thus, a methodology is developed to design an energy-efficient and overall sustainable transport system (Mitigation Planning). Read more
Assessing Public Transportation Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise: A Case Study Application M. Oswald and C. Treat/2013 Public Transport, Climate Change The climate change-caused sea level rise threatens transportation infrastructure. The report identifies vulnerable facilities and develops solutions to adapt planning practices. The focus lies on the Transit Indundation Modeling Method (TIMM) to railway and bus networks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Read more
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 over a 70-year time horizon. 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 project aims at the creation of a generic methodology. The project was completed in April 2013. Read more
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. Read More
Climate Change Risk Assessment for the Transport Sector (CCRA) UK Government / 2012 Infrastructure, Climate change The CCRA gives a national review of climate change risks governed by the Climate Change Act 2008. 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 insight into climate change priorities in urban policies, plans and investments of Asian cities. Read more
Resilient Mobility TRL/2011 General, Infrastructure The Resilient Mobility Initiative promotes policy-making for reliable transport networks, restant to future climate extremes. Read more
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 requirements. 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. 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 adaption measures to climate change in the transport sector focusing on road infrastructure. Read more
A stronger more resilient New York New York City/2011 Planning, Climate Change After the tropical storm Sandy, the city of New York strives to strengthen its infrastructure - resilient against extreme weather events . Read more
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. Read more
Adaptation to climate change in the transport sector Klaus Eisenack,; Rebecca Stecker,; Diana Reckien,; Esther Hoffmann/ 2011 Transport, financing, climate change, Extensive literature review elaborates on the adaptation to climate change in the transport sector. It is suggested to employ 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. Read more
Decision Making in a changing Climate. Adaption, Challenges and Choices World Resource Institute/ 2010-11 Decision making, Climate change Focusing on public engagement and institutional framework for policymaking, this report aims at strengthening the ability of national governments to adapt effective decisions concerning climate change. Read More
Forecasting transportation infrastructure slope failures in a changing climate UK/2010 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. Read more
Guidance Note on Recovery Infrastructure UNDP, UNISDR, IRP/2010 Infrastructure, Climate Change This document provides cohesive knowledge for disaster recovery planners and policy makers, in the recognition of preventive measures being vital to reducing the more costly efforts of responding to disasters. Case studies illustrate disaster recovery experiences in order to deduct best practice models by placing a menu of options. Read more
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Making Transport Resilient. Country Report: Ethiopia. World Bank/2010 Infrastructure, climate change, report This report elaborates on the initiative "Mak-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. Read More
Alternative materials and methods to enhance resistance to climate change, ENR SRO3 report ERA.net/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. Read More
Study of water effects on asphalt and porous asphalt, ENR SRO3 report, ERA.net/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. Read more
Climate Change Projections for Variables Affecting Road Networks in Europe, ENR SRO3 report ERA.net/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. 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 Transportation systems play a crucial role in responding to a region's pre-disaster evacuation and post-disaster recovery. Their ability to perform under adverse conditions in times of disaster depends upon the resiliencey of their fixed and moveable assets as well as their operational procedures before, during and after the event. For New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina was a "game changer"; severely impacting the city's transportation systems. This case study assesses the resilience of individual transportation systems. 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
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. and evaluated. Read more
Infrastructure Resilience to Disasters Stephanie E. Chang/ 2009 Infrastructure Resilience The cosequences of recent disasters demonstrate the vulnerability of urban infrastructure in th U.S. Infrastructure failure is often a primary cause of economic and human losses in disasters. Thus, improving the resilience of infrastructure systems in not only a technical problem, but it also has societal dimensions. Read More
State of the art of likely effect of climate change on current roads, ENR SRO3 report ERA.net/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. 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) present a framework for the stages of a disaster and identifies related research. Read more
The role of transit in Emergency Evacuation TRB/2008 Planning, Climate Change, Evacuation planning Transportation systems are part of the emergency mangement and evacuation of urban areas. This study provides extensive literature review on emergency transport. Read more
Transit Cooperative Research Programme FTA/2008 Planning, Emergency, Evacuation planning The International Transit Studies Program (ITSP) is part of the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP). ITSP study missions has the following objectives







  • to afford team members the opportunity to expand their network of domestic and international public transport peers,
  • to provide a forum for discussion of global initiatives and lessons learned in public transportation, and
  • to facilitate idea-sharing and the possible import of strategies for application to America’s transportation communities.
Read more
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 countries illustrate the proposed measures. Read more
Climate change and London’s transport systems Greater London Authority/2005 Climate vulnerabilities, climate change This report describes some of the actions which will help reduce or eliminate the adverse effects of climate change. The report highlights that early action, especially at the design stage, can require little or no extra cost while ensuring that Londoners can travel comfortably and that infrastructure remains useable throughout its design life. Read more
ARISCC Adaptation of Railway Infrastructure to Climate Change. Final Report of UIC project ARISCC Roland Nolte; Christian Kamburow; Johannes Rupp/2011 Adaption, Climate Change, Railway Infrastructure This publication focuses on an integrated management of weather and climate related natural hazards in a way that keeps and improves railway infrastructure performance and avoids or minimizes damage to railway infrastructure assets. Read more



Preparing a Comprehensive Mobility Plan (CMP) - A Toolkit (Revised) Institute of Urban Transport (IUT) India, , the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and UNEP DTU Partnership/2014 Smart and Low Carbon Transport Planning The revised toolkit has a clear focus on climate change and sustainable development and takes forward the process of integrating the actions necessary for the transport sector as per the "National Mission on Sustainable Habitat," for which MoUD is the nodal ministry. The toolkit provides a clear guidance for integrating the inclusiveness agenda within the transport planning processes with a strong focus on integration of land use and transport planning bringing the CMP closer to the development plans/master plans of the city. Read More


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