A survey on impacts of climate change on road transport infrastructure and adaptation strategies in Asia

Regmi, Madan B.; Hanaoka, Shinya

doi:10.1007/s10018-010-0002-y

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“…One study surveyed 21 countries around the region and the results highlight low awareness of climate change impacts on transportation (75 % recorded low awareness by policy-makers). Moreover, the majority of the respondents indicated that there are no existing laws, rules or guidelines to assess environmental and climate change impacts (Regmi and Hanaoka 2011 ).…”

Section: Transportationmentioning

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Climate and Urbanization

Marcotullio

Cooper

Lebel

2013

Advances in Global Change Research

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Urbanization is a major factor across Asia and the Pacifi c, and so the scope of this chapter is somewhat restricted. There is a focus on larger urban areas, as the small communities of rural areas are discussed in other chapters. The breadth of the topic of urbanization also means that reports by government agencies and NGOs (grey literature) are cited, as well as the formal academic literature. The six sections of the present Chapter systematically review literature in the fi eld. In the fi rst section we overview urbanization trends in the region. In the second section we review the history of urbanization in the region. The third section examines urbanization and climate in Asia and the Pacifi c. The fourth section describes the risks in urban areas due to climate change-related hazards. The fi fth section overviews mitigation and adaptation measures in the region. The fi nal section concludes with the needs for resilient cities and addresses uncertainties, research gaps and policy measures.Future predictions suggest that large cities will not hold most of the region's total urban population. In 1990, cities of larger than one million held almost 35.1 % of the total urban population and by 2025 the UN predicts that cities of one million or more will hold 41.2 % of the total urban population. The share of those living in Chapter 3

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Section: Transportationmentioning

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Climate and Urbanization

Marcotullio

Cooper

Lebel

2013

Advances in Global Change Research

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“…• Switch protection • Pile construction for buildings with technical equipment (Maurer et al 2012) • Cooling of signals and installation of fans to keep electronic equipment functional during periods of extreme heat (Hoffmann et al 2009) • Increased (preventive) maintenance activities (infrastructure and existing protection systems) (Lindgren et al 2009;Regmi and Hanaoka 2009) • Vegetation management along rail tracks (Lindgren et al 2009;Maibach et al 2012) • Installation of (automatic) monitoring systems (Lindgren et al 2009;Baker et al 2010) • Incentives (for responsible stakeholders) and regulations to apply and maintain adaptation measures (e.g., voluntary integration of adaptation measures into costbenefit analysis for new infrastructure) (Maurer et al 2012) • Land use regulations (Lindgren et al 2009;Maibach et al 2012).…”

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Adapting rail and road networks to weather extremes: case studies for southern Germany and Austria

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Departing from the EC-funded project WEATHER, this paper delves into the subject of adaptation strategies by revisiting the project's general findings on adaptation strategies and by adding two specific cases: (1) advanced winter maintenance on roads in southwest Germany and (2) technical and organizational measures in Alpine rail transport. For these two cases, feasible adaptation strategies are elaborated and their potential is discussed in light of damage cost forecasts up to 2050. For the road sector, we find a high potential to mitigate weather-related costs, although damages here are expected to decline. In contrast, rail systems face strongly increasing damages and the mitigation options offered by improved information and communication systems seem to be largely exploited. Consequently, it is easier to justify expensive adaptation measures for high-cost rail infrastructures than for road transport. A generic analysis of 14 damage cases worldwide, however, 123Nat Hazards DOI 10.1007/s11069-013-0969-3 revealed that generally awareness raising, cooperation and communication strategies are sufficient to mitigate the most severe damages by natural disasters.

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“…With regard to rail transportation it was concluded that high temperatures, icing and strong winds are causing considerable delays (Koetse and Rietveld, 2009). Table 1 Studies about impacts of extreme weather events on road and rail transportation (continued) Regmi and Hanaoka (2011)  Road transport infrastructure and operations in Asia are affected by EWEs such as extreme rainfall, elevated temperature and storm surge Chang et al (2010)  Five-year, ten-year, and other relatively frequent EWEs are likely to increase in the US Pacific Northwest  Stream channels will likely lag in adjusting to the new, slowly increasing discharge regimes and may not be able to adjust at bridge locations, which is likely to exacerbate roadway flooding Mills et al (2011)  In road transportation precipitation, both rainfall and snowfall events substantially increase the risk of injury collision and injury relative to corresponding dry weather control periods Table 1 Studies about impacts of extreme weather events on road and rail transportation (continued) Regmi and Hanaoka (2011)  Road transport infrastructure and operations in Asia are affected by EWEs such as extreme rainfall, elevated temperature and storm surge Chang et al (2010)  Five-year, ten-year, and other relatively frequent EWEs are likely to increase in the US Pacific Northwest  Stream channels will likely lag in adjusting to the new, slowly increasing discharge regimes and may not be able to adjust at bridge locations, which is likely to exacerbate roadway flooding Mills et al (2011)  In road transportation precipitation, both rainfall and snowfall events substantially increase the risk of injury collision and injury relative to corresponding dry weather control periods…”

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Extreme weather events and road and rail transportation in Germany

Trinks

Hiete

Schultmann

2012

IJEM

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Civil protection authorities, transport companies and operators need detailed information about the impacts of weather extremes on transportation systems in order to adapt risk and emergency management strategies. Due to the lack of data for Germany a pragmatic strategy to establish links between extreme weather events and adverse effects on road and rail transportation is proposed exploiting official annual reviews of the German Weather Service (DWD). In Germany road transportation is mainly disrupted due to ice and snow while rail transportation is most vulnerable to strong winds and winter conditions as well. Through the empirical evidence provided, hotspots for risk and emergency management in road and rail transportation concerning extreme weather events can be set. Recommendations for instruments to integrate extreme weather events into the risk and emergency management of road and rail transportation are given.

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A survey on impacts of climate change on road transport infrastructure and adaptation strategies in Asia

Abstract: Climate change, Impacts on road, Environmental guidelines, Adaptation strategies, Asia,

Cited by 37 publications

References 7 publications

Climate and Urbanization

Climate and Urbanization

Adapting rail and road networks to weather extremes: case studies for southern Germany and Austria

Extreme weather events and road and rail transportation in Germany

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