Climate extremes and their implications for impact modeling in transport

Restoration models for quantifying flood resilience of bridges

“…As the climate is changing, heavy precipitation is intensifying on global average (Donat et al 2020). Local extremes have increased in frequency, ferocity and duration posing a significant threat to all classes of transport infrastructure (Pregnolato et al 2020). Bridges are arguably one of the worst affected assets with future projections anticipating that in critical regions such as New Mexico or West Texas bridge vulnerability to scour may escalate to 90% by the second half of the 21st century (Neumann et al 2015).…”

Water-Wise Cities and Sustainable Water Systems: Concepts, Technologies, and Applications

“…to run electric trains), or water supply system (e.g. to run water pumps) (Pregnolato et al, 2020). Consequently, the impact of natural catastrophes is often disproportionately large.…”

“…When taking a long-term view, a resilient city is a system which includes the capability to withstand and bounce back from adverse events, and resilience is necessary for sustainable urban growth (Elmqvist et al, 2019). As infrastructure is a core component of disaster risk reduction, the current challenge is to manage the resilient city's transformation process based on resilient infrastructure, thus enabling the city to provide services to its inhabitants even under adverse conditions (Pregnolato et al, 2020).…”