Impact of Climate Change on Pavement Performance: Preliminary Lessons Learned through the Infrastructure and Climate Network (ICNet)

The Infrastructure and Climate Network (ICNet) was established to develop collaborative networks and platforms needed to integrate the multidisciplinary areas of climate change, pavement design and performance, and economics. Preliminary network activities, described in this paper, have rapidly expanded knowledge of pavement performance under future climates and provide insights for future research. Specifically, increases in the frequency and/or severity of many types of extreme weather events have already been observed; projected future changes in air temperature, rainfall, sea level rise and hurricanes on pavement performance are significant; and future costs are expected to increase very significantly and non-linearly. Combining these findings, the authors offer a set of recommendations for future research to address their key research question: How does climate non-stationarity differentially impact transportation infrastructure design, performance and life span?

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  https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784413326.001
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  • © 2014 American Society of Civil Engineers
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Daniel, Jo Sias
  • Jacobs, Jennifer M
  • Douglas, Ellen
  • Mallick, Rajib B
  • Hayhoe, Katharine
• Conference:
  • International Symposium of Climatic Effects on Pavement and Geotechnical Infrastructure 2013
  • Location: Fairbanks Alaska, United States
  • Date: 2013-8-4 to 2013-8-7
• Publication Date: 2014-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: pp 1-9
• Monograph Title: Climatic Effects on Pavement and Geotechnical Infrastructure

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Climate change; Costs; Hurricanes; Infrastructure; Multidisciplinary teams; Pavement performance; Pavements; Rainfall; Sea level; Weather conditions
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Pavements; I15: Environment; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01526072
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784413326
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: May 28 2014 3:22PM