Implementing Climate Change Adaptation for European Road Administrations

Axelsen, Christian; Grauert, Marianne; Liljegren, Eva; Bowe, Mary; Sladek, Brigitte

doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2016.05.040

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“…Such challenges include shifts in more frequent extreme weather, safe transport routes, time and locality of accidents, shifts in tourism and agriculture and pavement material damage and road maintenance changes. (Andersson & Chapman, 2011a;Axelsen et al, 2016;Balston et al, 2017;Koetse & Rietveld, 2009). Particularly in high northern latitudes like Northern Europe or Canada, where winter road maintenance is both a necessity and a big cost point, climate change is estimated to have stronger impacts due to arctic amplification (Screen, 2014).…”

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Climate change impacts on future driving and walking conditions in Finland, Norway and Sweden

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Road weather is a major concern for the public safety and health, industries and transport sectors. Half of the yearly 27,000 road and 50,000 pedestrian injuries in Finland, Norway and Sweden can be traced back to slippery road and walkway conditions. We simulated the climate change impacts on future roads and walkways for mid- and end-century in Finland, Norway and Sweden with the road weather model RoadSurf, driven by the regional climate model HCLIM38 with boundary data from two global climate models following the RCP8.5 scenario.Our simulations for mid-century suggest strong road surface temperature increases, especially in southern Finland (+ 5.1 °C) and Sweden (+ 7.1 °C). Snowy and icy road surface conditions decreased by 23 percentage points, causing 18.5 percentage points less difficult driving conditions during the cold season. Zero-degree-crossing days mostly decreased in autumn and spring by up to 7 days and increased in winter by up to 5 days. Sidewalks mostly showed a decrease in slipperiness, but a five percentage point increase of water above ice layers on the sidewalks in winter, suggesting the slip-season might become shorter, but more slippery.Our results are upper extreme estimates but can serve as a reference to help local decision-makers plan mitigation and adaptation measures ahead of time.

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Climate change impacts on future driving and walking conditions in Finland, Norway and Sweden

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“…Desta forma, os cenários de mudança do clima indicam que a mitigação de gases de efeito estufa (GEE) não é suficiente para estabilizar a temperatura atual para o ano de 2100 (ano de referência de parte dos estudos do clima para o longo prazo). Passa-se, portanto, a dar maior atenção às medidas de adaptação, juntamente com a pesquisa e implementação de medidas de mitigação contínua (Axelsen et al, 2016).…”

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Robustez das infraestruturas de transporte de países emergentes às mudanças do clima / The robustness of emerging countries' transport infrastructures to climate change

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RESUMOOs sistemas de transporte têm se tornado mais vulneráveis a incidentes, dado que a presença de congestionamentos tende a crescer conforme o processo de urbanização avança. Logo, torna-se mais difícil a recuperação perante incidentes, visto que a capacidade disponível para acomodar novas distribuições de fluxos é cada vez menor. Os métodos tradicionais para avaliação do risco de inundações, baseados em registros históricos, com frequência ignoram as tendências de longo prazo, tais como as decorrentes de mudanças climáticas oriundas de ações antropogênicas. O objetivo desse trabalho é avaliar a robustez de uma rede viária perante eventos extremos de inundações associados às mudanças climáticas por meio da proposição de um método. Para isso, conduziu-se uma revisão bibliográfica sistemática para identificar os estudos que relacionam transporte e robustez com eventos extremos. Os resultados mostram que é possível estabelecer um método de análise que permite a criação de um ranking de prioridades em função dos potenciais danos.Palavras-chave: adaptação, mudança do clima, robustez, rede de transporte.

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“…At European level, the importance of vulnerability studies concerning transport infrastructure in the context of climate change (Axelsen et al, 2016;Bles et al, 2016;van Ginkel et al, 2021) is underlined through the guidelines proposed in 2015 by the ROADAPT project (Roads for today adapted for tomorrow), implemented under the Transnational Road Research Program (CEDR). Alongside geomorphologic phenomena such as landslides, river floods are one of the most important hazards that affect transport infrastructure.…”

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Assessing the vulnerability of transport network to flood hazard using GIS analysis. Case study along Orient-East Med TEN-T Corridor, on Timiș-Cerna Valley, Romania

Stoica-Fuchs

2021

Present Environment and Sustainable Development

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In the context of current climate change, it is estimated that flood risk will increase significantly, with important consequences for the human habitat and transport networks. Research literature features a continuous concern both for the improvement of flood hazard modeling and for the quantification of economic costs specific to material and human damage caused by floods. In the present study, we intend to perform an analysis on the vulnerability of the transport network along the Orient-East Med (OEM) Corridor, part of the TEN-T Core network at European level. By integrating flood bands with high (10 years) and medium (100 years) probability of recurrence, as well as various typologies of the transport network in a GIS environment, we successfully identified and characterized road and railway sectors susceptible to flooding events. Vector overlay analysis and statistical methods were validated by means of local research literature, field observations and aerial imagery. Our results feature the geographic distribution and statistical characterization of transport infrastructure vulnerable to flood risk along Timiș-Cerna Valley, in south-western Romania. We also discuss the state of current flood risk mitigation measures for transport network in the study area, along with the importance of our research for regional and local spatial planning documents and investment prioritization activities. Similar spatially-enabled analysis could enable better protection for the current and proposed transport infrastructure and minimize the damaging effects of flash floods.

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Implementing Climate Change Adaptation for European Road Administrations

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Climate change impacts on future driving and walking conditions in Finland, Norway and Sweden

Climate change impacts on future driving and walking conditions in Finland, Norway and Sweden

Robustez das infraestruturas de transporte de países emergentes às mudanças do clima / The robustness of emerging countries' transport infrastructures to climate change

Assessing the vulnerability of transport network to flood hazard using GIS analysis. Case study along Orient-East Med TEN-T Corridor, on Timiș-Cerna Valley, Romania

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