Quantitative Approaches to Risk Screening Roads for Climate Change Risks

This research addresses the need for a more comprehensive approach to identifying roads at risk from climate change. Although subjective assessments can be useful, their inability to be conclusively tested makes it difficult to compare and rank their results across projects. In recognition of this, this paper develops techniques to provide simple, objective and transparent methodologies for identifying the point at which climate change is relevant for a road project’s design. Factors identified as being the most likely to impact roads are sea-level rise, deterioration from changes in average temperate and rainfall and changes in peak and average rainfall which result in inundation. Where potential risk factors are identified, a more detailed assessment of the risks is recommended.

  • Supplemental Notes:
    • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AH010 Surface Transportation Weather
  • Corporate Authors:

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  • Authors:
    • Dickenson-Jones, Giles
    • Mizusawa, Daisuke
    • Chen, Chen
  • Conference:
  • Date: 2012

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Media Type: Digital/other
  • Features: Figures; References; Tables;
  • Pagination: 17p
  • Monograph Title: TRB 91st Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD

Subject/Index Terms

  • TRT Terms: Climate change; Highway design; Methodology; Risk analysis; Roads
  • Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; I15: Environment; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01373739
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Report/Paper Numbers: 12-4045
  • Files: TRIS, TRB
  • Created Date: Jun 25 2012 2:47PM