Climate Adaptation in Transport Networks: Roads and Railroads
The Scientific Community has probed beyond doubt that the increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is anthropogenic in origin. The Climate Change is, in turn, a direct consecuence of this increase and its effects are already being felt throughout the world.
The Clarity project, financed by the H2020 Programme, has developed a Climate Service (CSIS) that entails an online tool to evaluate climate risks for Urban and Transport Infrastructures. It can also provide projections of the climate variables that have been deemed more relevant in terms of the potential hazards to both cities and transport infrastructures.
In this video, experts from Acciona, CEDEX and AEmet in Spain as well as the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) give insight in possible hazards and adaptation strategies for road and rail transport infrastructure.
Agenda
Welcome to the participants and brief presentation of the webinar content
CLARITY project presentation by the project leader.
Presentation of the functionality of the CSIS system developed within the framework of the project. The CSIS is a climate analysis system that allows the resilience of transport infrastructures, in this case the road and railway networks, to be assessed and various risks associated with Climate Change to be analyzed.
Within the framework of the CLARITY project, several climate indices have been developed that have been considered relevant to the study of both urban areas, and road and railways.