Technical Session 1.4 - Climate Change and Resilience of Road Networks
Wednesday, October 4
09:30
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13:00
Chair: Caroline EVANS (Australia) and Fernando MENDOZA (Mexico), Chair and Secretary of PIARC TC 1.4 on Climate Change and Resilience of Road Networks
Room: Panorama
Hall, 1st floor
This session presented the work accomplished by the PIARC Committee during 2020–2023 on the following issues: 1.4.1 Uniform and holistic methodological approaches to resilience against Climate Change and other hazards. 1.4.2 Update of the PIARC International Climate Change Adaptation Framework for Road Infrastructure.
The session was complemented by the results of the call for papers on the following topics: 1. Practical studies to increase the resilience of the road network. 2. Climate change adaptation actions for road infrastructure. 3. Cross-cutting issues of resilience and climate change.
Two winners of the PIARC Prizes presented their papers at this session:
- Fernanda OLIVEIRA DE SOUSA, Brazil, winner of the Prize "Authors from LMICs" supported by the Japan Road Association,
- Fernando JIMENEZ, Spain, winner of the Prize "Climate Change and Resilience" sponsored by Australia and New Zealand.
- Welcome and session introduction
- Presentations
- Questions and Answers
- Presentations
- Questions and Answers
- Presentations
- Questions and Answers
- Conclusion
- Final Conclusions
- Organization
Welcome and session introduction
• Caroline EVANS, Current Chair of PIARC TC 1.4 on Climate Change and Resilience of Road Networks, Australia
Presentations
Accomplishments of Working Groups
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Case study task force: Briefing note
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Uniform and holistic methodological approaches to climate change and other hazards resilience
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Update of the PIARC Climate Change Adaptation Framework
Questions and Answers
• Caroline EVANS, Current Chair of PIARC TC 1.4 on Climate Change and Resilience of Road Networks, Australia
Presentations
Results of the call for papers
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Identification of vulnerable sections of the road network based on historical records of incidences due to climate impacts
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HazRoad - Monitoring system for hazard prevention in highways - A case study in Brazilian Federal Highways
Questions and Answers
• Shafiq ALAM, Next Chair of PIARC TC 1.4 on Climate Change and Resilience of Road Networks, Australia
Break
Presentations
Results of the call for papers (continued)
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Vulnerability Assessment Process of the Rwanda Road Network
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Climate impact assessment for the federal trunk road network in Germany
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Climate Resiliency Measures for Roads in the Mountains of California
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Risk thresholds related to climate change in road infrastructure in Spain
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Channelizing global evidence for mainstreaming of resilient road infrastructure through standards
Questions and Answers
• Shafiq ALAM, Next Chair of PIARC TC 1.4 on Climate Change and Resilience of Road Networks, Australia
Conclusion
• Shafiq ALAM, Next Chair of PIARC TC 1.4 on Climate Change and Resilience of Road Networks, Australia
Final Conclusions
Organization
Session Organisers: Caroline EVANS, Australia and Fernando MENDOZA, Mexico