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PIARC Prize "Sustainable Development" - Adapting Road Network Design, Maintenance and Operations Documents to the Realities of Climate Change
Marie Colin Manager of the project entitled Resilience and Infrastructure, Cerema (France)
Fabien Palhol Director of Research and Development, Cerema (France)
Through freeze/thaw cycles, temperature gradients, flooding and storms, climatic conditions regularly affect the state of transportation infrastructure. In order to reduce vulnerabilities in this sector, facility management practices are based on a set of design, maintenance and operations references that incorporate a broad array of climate parameters. Despite the substantial efforts expended globally to limit greenhouse gas emissions and prevent the planet from heating by more than 2°C, several emerging trends are nonetheless being anticipated, like a longer heat wave season, rising sea levels and altered precipitation profiles. Risks to infrastructure will thus evolve as climate change runs its course: it is essential for facility managers to revise their reference materials accordingly!
- An approach to adapting infrastructure management references to better withstand climate change
- Trends affecting the climate and their impacts on transportation infrastructure
- Reference materials to be adapted
- Climate data required to adapt the reference materials
- Toward the adaptation of reference materials
- References