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Impacts of climate change on transport: A focus on road and rail transport infrastructure

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This report provides a general EU-wide outlook about the future vulnerability of transport to climate change with a focus on the road and rail transport and their infrastructures. It also analyses some specific adaptations measures, illustrating key issues to be considered for policy making. It represents a first JRC/IPTS assessment of future impacts of climate change on the transport system in Europe, which has been conducted in the framework of the JRC PESETAII project.

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Source:
Joint Research Center

Published in Climate-ADAPT Jun 07 2016   -   Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Sep 10 2022

Reviewed by:

tibi

Date of publication:

2012

Keywords:

peseta II, rail, road

Climate impacts:

Flooding, Storms

Elements:

Adaptation Measures and Actions, Vulnerability Assessment

Sectors:

Transport

Geographic characterisation:

Europe

Countries:

Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

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