Water management for road authorities in the face of Climate Change (WATCH)

Description:

The WATCH project is one of the two projects on climate change adaptation in the road sector financed by CEDR through its 2015 call for research proposals. It focuses on water management, and will produce a number of results of immediate benefit to National Road Administrators (NRA):

• A comprehensive manual on how to determine the resilience of drainage systems and the consequences for inspection and maintenance as well as for the design and assessment of alternatives.
• Comparison of the state of practice of existing water management and drainage approaches in different NRAs.
• Guidelines to correctly interpret and apply relevant information extracted from climate projections and scenarios to be used in road drainage and maintenance design.
• A simple tool that shows climate analogues for rainfall extremes in Europe.
• A protocol for adapting SUDS systems for Climate Change, with applications for roads across Europe.
• Guidelines for a CBA of adaptation and maintenance approaches for water management.

 

WATCH will ensure that the research results will be useful and ready for implementation in NRAs' standards and procurement practices by paying particular attention to user requirements and integration of the results of the CEDR report on Climate Change adaptation. WATCH will cooperate with the DeTECToR project to achieve synergy with their approach to embedding Climate Change into practice and procurement. Case Studies will be developed to demonstrate how the results of WATCH can be used in practice.

Project information

Lead

Deltares

Partners

ROD-IS, Ireland

EGIS, France

DRD, Denmark

KNMI, Netherlands

Source of funding

Conference of European Directors of Roads (CEDR)