Adaptation of the road infrastructure to climate change
Various climate projections predict changing climatic parameters like temperature, precipitation, wind speed etc. for Germany. This could have severe impacts on road transport infrastructure as well as road traffic itself. At the Federal Highway Research Institute (Bundesanstalt für Strassenwesen (BASt)) a strategy was developed to adapt roads and engineering structures to the impacts of climate change. The strategy “Anpassung der Strassenverkehrsinfrastruktur an den Klimawandel (AdSVIS)” comprises currently about 15 projects. On the basis of the identification of the hazards and the combination of the climate and road network data, the road transport infrastructure which might be affected is to be determined. Adaptation measures are to be developed for the identified risk areas and assessed as to their effectiveness. Special attention is given to international cooperation since climate change is a truly global challenge.
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Corporate Authors:
14-20 bd Newton, Cité Descartes, Champs su Marne
77447 Marne la Vallée, France Cedex 2 -
Authors:
- AUERBACH, M
- Herrmann, C
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Conference:
- Transport Research Arena (TRA) 5th Conference: Transport Solutions from Research to Deployment
- Location: Paris , France
- Date: 2014-4-14 to 2014-4-17
- Publication Date: 2014-4
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 10p
- Monograph Title: Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2014 Proceedings
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Climate change; Environment; Infrastructure; Risk assessment; Types of roads by network
- Uncontrolled Terms: Road design and asset management
- Geographic Terms: Germany
- ATRI Terms: Climate change; Environment; Infrastructure; Risk assessment; Road network
- Subject Areas: Environment; Highways;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01534648
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- Files: VTI, TRIS, ATRI
- Created Date: Aug 14 2014 10:17AM