Impact of Climate Change on Transportation: As Security Issue

Al-Alawi, Mu'taz

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-8563-4_14

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“…Some studies focus solely on a qualitative commentary, typically discussing the ways in which weather can affect infrastructure, outlining how a changing climate may change the future weather, and thereby noting the possible effect of climate change on a given infrastructure impact (Al‐Alawi, 2010; Delgado & Aktas, 2016; Rossetti, 2002; Sa'adin et al, 2016). In simplistic terms, this may be based on the expected direction of change in the impact with climate change.…”

Section: Challenges In Assessing Climate Change Risks For Railway Infrastructurementioning

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Implications of climate change for railway infrastructure

Palin

Stipanović

Gavin

et al. 2021

WIREs Climate Change

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Weather phenomena can result in severe impacts on railway infrastructure. In future, projected changes to the frequency and/or intensity of extreme weather events could change weather–infrastructure risk profiles. Infrastructure owners and operators need to manage current weather impacts and put in place adequate plans to anticipate and adapt to changes in future weather risks, or mitigate the impacts arising from those risks. The assessment of the risk posed to railway infrastructure from current and future weather is dependent on a good understanding of the constituent components of risk: hazard, vulnerability, and exposure. A good understanding of the baseline and projected future risk is needed in order to understand the potential benefits of various climate change adaptation actions. Traditional risk assessment methods need some modification in order to be applied to climate change timescales, for which decisions need to be made under deep uncertainty. This review paper highlights some key challenges for assessing the risk, including: managing uncertainties; understanding weather‐impact relationships and how they could change with climate change; assessing the costs of current and future weather impacts and the potential cost versus benefit of adaptation; and understanding practices and tools for adapting railway infrastructure. The literature reveals examples of progress and good practice in all these areas, providing scope for effective knowledge‐sharing—across the railway infrastructure and other sectors—in support of infrastructure resilience and adaptation. This article is categorized under: Assessing Impacts of Climate Change > Evaluating Future Impacts of Climate Change

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Section: Challenges In Assessing Climate Change Risks For Railway Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Implications of climate change for railway infrastructure

Palin

Stipanović

Gavin

et al. 2021

WIREs Climate Change

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“…The potential impacts of climate change on transport can affect both transport infrastructure and operations. Paper [20] explores the possibility of direct as well as indirect impacts of climate change and other variables on transport.…”

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The Role of Multimodal Transportation in Ensuring Sustainable Territorial Development: Review of Risks and Prospects

Makarova

Serikkaliyeva

Gubacheva³

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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The Russian Arctic development is an investment direction, which is planned through a system of so-called “support zones” of various development degrees, it is a priority for Russia and can have a positive effect. Since integrated territorial development is associated with significant cargo flows of raw materials, materials and goods, logistics chains will include various transport modes, which will lead to the development of infrastructure (including the construction and reconstruction of seaports, the network of the railways and roads expansion) and the emergence of new international transport corridors (ITCs). A scientifically based solution to the problems of constructing a delivery route, including the location of transshipment points, logistics terminals and the rolling stock selection, will ensure the sustainable territories development through which ITCs pass. However, these tasks, which constitute the activity of organizing multimodal transportation, are associated with various types of risks, the successful solution of which, in this case, depends on the sustainable territorial development of these territories. Therefore, the research objective is to establish the relationship between the development of transport networks and the development of the Arctic region, the designation of possible prospects for the development of both multimodal transportation as a whole as a strategic event, and the contribution of each kind of transport, as well as the risks of creating and using international transport corridors, including cumulative impact on the environment. As a result of the literature analysis, we have considered the causes and consequences of the improper planning of supply chains and infrastructure, then we have indicated the role of new transport corridors in the development of territories. We have built a tree of problems in order to systematize risk situations and identify root causes and consequences. A method for calculating the cargo delivery time is proposed, taking into account the multimodality of logistics chains as well as measures that help reduce risks.

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“…GCC countries are confronted to multi-climate change challenges such as desertification, loss of biodiversity, water scarcity, and sea level rise. The region is also faced with high humidity, high temperature and salt water intrusion into aquifers [19]. Urban planning and clean energy consumption can avoid emission of pollutants while ensuring sustainable development in GCC countries [20].…”

Section: Climate Change Vulnerability Of Gccmentioning

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Shifting to Renewable Energy to Mitigate Carbon Emissions: Initiatives by the States of Gulf Cooperation Council

Al-Shidi¹,

Sulaiman²,

Amoatey³

2016

LCE

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The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries approximately have 40% of world's proven oil reserves and 21.7% of world's known gas reserves. Low energy costs compiled with low taxation make it lucrative to foreign energy-intensive companies to operate in the region. Energy consumption in GCC has increased by 74% in the period between 2000 and 2010 and it is projected to increase by approximately 10% to 15% between 2010 and 2020. Embracing the general commitment by GCC states to reduce greenhouse gas emission (GHG) of United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has started the process of environmental awakening in the GCC countries due to its high vulnerability to the effects of climate change. This paper reviews the trends in shift to renewable energy with reference to GCC and also the co-benefits of investing in renewable energy. Solar plant and Building-Integrated Photo-Voltaic (BIPV) systems are the most invested projects. However in the long run, policies and strategies are needed to ensure the successful and larger implementation of mitigation objectives.

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Impact of Climate Change on Transportation: As Security Issue

Cited by 5 publications

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Implications of climate change for railway infrastructure

Implications of climate change for railway infrastructure

The Role of Multimodal Transportation in Ensuring Sustainable Territorial Development: Review of Risks and Prospects

Shifting to Renewable Energy to Mitigate Carbon Emissions: Initiatives by the States of Gulf Cooperation Council

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