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

FUTURENET aims at describing the U-transport system in 2050, physically and in demand terms, and the transport network in 2050 the most resiliant to climate change. To achieve resilience, the following objectives have to be targeted: weather models with meteorological and climatic trigger, generic methods applicable to other transport corridors and dissemination of results amongst stakeholders, policy makers and practitioners.

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Real-time planning for resillient transport futures Technical, Planning

The interaction between transport policy ad the economy, environment and society, aims at improving the effectiveness of transport practice 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 programme aim at providing road authorities all across Europe with knowledge and tools for effects of climate change on road management by adapting design rules, updating and improving data collection, and developing risk management methods.

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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 changes will affect highways negatively. If 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 caused deterioration of road pavement.

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

Technical, Road maintenance, Climate change

The report provides an introduction to changes of asphalt 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 a regional climate models, using 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

The project's objective aims at developing suitable tools to evaluate and communicate the risks related to natural hazards, to sensitise decision makers, and to develop evidence based strategies for risk management in the transport sector.

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Transportation Network Resiliency: A Study of Self-Annealing

Disaster, Transport Resilience

This research poposes a conceptual framework to quantify resilience of transportation networks in order to provide reliabl 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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