Adaptation of the road infrastructure to climate change
- Various climate projections predict changing climatic parameters like temperature, precipitation, wind speed etc. for Germany. This could have severe impacts on road transport infrastructure as well as road traffic itself. At the Federal Highway Research Institute (Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt) a strategy was developed to adapt roads and engineering structures to the impacts of climate change. The strategy "Anpassung der Straßenverkehrsinfrastruktur an den Klimawandel / Adaptation of the road infrastructure to climate change (AdSVIS)" comprises currently about 15 projects. On the basis of the identification of the hazards and the combination of the climate and road network data, the road transport infrastructure which might be affected is to be determined. Adaptation measures are to be developed for the identified risk areas and assessed as to their effectiveness. Special attention is given to international cooperation since climate change is a truly global challenge.
Verfasserangaben: | Markus Auerbach, Carina Herrmann |
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Dokumentart: | Konferenzveröffentlichung |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Veröffentlichung (online): | 21.08.2015 |
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2014 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 21.08.2015 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | Deutschland; Forschungsarbeit; Risikobewertung; Treibhauseffekt; Umwelt; Verkehrsinfrastruktur; Verkehrsnetz; Veränderung; Witterung Environment; Germany; Greenhouse effect; Modification; Network (traffic); Research project; Risk assessment; Transport infrastructure; Weather |
Bemerkung: | Volltext verfügbar unter: http://tra2014.traconference.eu/papers/html/papers.html |
Quelle: | Transport Research Arena 2014 |
Institute: | Abteilung Straßenbautechnik / Abteilung Straßenbautechnik |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 62 Ingenieurwissenschaften / 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten |
collections: | BASt-Beiträge / ITRD Sachgebiete / 15 Umwelt |
BASt-Beiträge / ITRD Sachgebiete / 72 Verkehrs- und Transportplanung |