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Title:

Future Resilient Transport Networks (FUTURENET): Assessing Transport Network Security in the Face of Climate Change

Accession Number:

01363834

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Transport network security is increasingly under threat from climate change. Identification and protection of all vulnerable infrastructure assets is not a realistic response. A different approach is required: one that assesses security in terms of a network’s resilience. To facilitate this, a network resilience assessment methodology is required; FUTURENET is a multi-partner, multi-disciplinary research project, investigating the development of such a methodology. It considers changes in climate and weather anticipated for 2050, and assesses the impact of these on the principal modes of transport (road, rail and air). FUTURENET seeks to create a generic methodology that might be applied to any transport network. It involves a number of research strands including investigations of: the influence that climate change will have on travel demand and travel behavior; modelling of transport failure modes and associated triggers and thresholds; generation and application of climate and weather events to networks; development of the network resilience assessment methodology, and; the application of systems engineering techniques to methodology development. The project is due to finish in April 2013; the paper describes the work carried out to date, and proposed for the future.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE40(6) ABE40 Paper Review Subcommittee

Monograph Accession #:

01362476

Report/Paper Numbers:

12-0279

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Bouch, Christopher John
Dijkstra, Tom
Dingwall, Robert
Gunn, David
Jaroszweski, David
Ryley, Tim
Sivell, Phil
Avery, Kathryn
Baker, Christopher J
Chapman, Lee
Dixon, Neil
Fleming, Paul Richard
Frost, Matthew William
Goulden, Murray
Hooper, Elizabeth
Lawley, Russell
Paulley, Neil
Quinn, Andrew
Reeves, Sarah
Wade, Steven
Wilks, Joanna
Zanni, Alberto

Pagination:

14p

Publication Date:

2012

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2012-1-22 to 2012-1-26
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References

Subject Areas:

Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies; Transportation (General); I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-0279

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 8 2012 4:53PM