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Adapting Transport to Climate Change and Extreme Weather: Implications for Infrastructure Owners and Network Managers

By Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Book information

Publisher
Organization For Economic Co-Operation & Development
Year
2016
ISBN
9282108066, 9789282108062
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9838973 bytes)
Series
ITF Research Report
Pages
136\144
Time added
2017-10-08 17:15:15
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Description

This report addresses the fundamental challenges that climate change poses to infrastructure owners, who face two major challenges. First, they must ensure continued asset performance under sometimes significantly modified climate conditions that may decrease the present value of their networks or increase maintenance and refurbishment costs. Second, they must build new assets in the context of changing and uncertain climate variables. This creates a risk of over- or under-specification of infrastructure design standards, potentially resulting in non-productive investments or network service degradation. This report investigates strategies that can help transport authorities contain network performance risks inherent in changing patterns of extreme weather.

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