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Forecasting infrastructure resilience to climate change

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posted on 2015-04-14, 15:23 authored by Tom DijkstraTom Dijkstra, Neil Dixon, Chris Crosby, Matthew FrostMatthew Frost, David Gunn, Paul FlemingPaul Fleming, Joanna H. Wilks
Resilience of the UK transport infrastructure network can be expressed as the imbalance between the physical condition of the network and the transport demands the network experiences. Forecasting changes of resilience in the long term (e.g. the 2050s) requires a structured, multi-disciplinary approach. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funded Futurenet project developed a model architecture to formalise such an approach and this paper addresses one component: the assessment of the influence of physical processes on asset condition. This requires the development of new, integrated physical-based models that respond to detailed inputs of forecast weather events (e.g. UK Climate Projections 2009). The results are plotted onto the infrastructure network for visualisation. Subsequent combination with user demand will then enable determination of network resilience at a range of spatial scales. The project has highlighted the need for better datasets, more sophisticated physical-based models and further analyses of complex feedbacks and interactions between physical processes and also with user behaviour.

Funding

The authors are grateful to the Highways Agency and Network Rail for use of their data and to the EPSRC-funded (EP/ G060770/1) Futurenet team for their continuing support. Tom Dijkstra and David Gunn publish with the permission of the Executive Director of BGS (NERC).

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-TRANSPORT

Volume

167

Issue

5

Pages

269 - 280 (12)

Citation

DIJKSTRA, T. ... et al, 2014. Forecasting infrastructure resilience to climate change. Proceedings of the ICE - Transport, 167 (5), pp.269-280.

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© ICE Publishing

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015-05-25

Copyright date

2014

ISSN

0965-092X

Language

  • en

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