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FUTURENET: Future Resilient Transport Networks
Prof. C J Baker (University of Birmingham), Prof. N Dixon (University of Loughborough), Prof. R Dingwall (University of Nottingham), Dr D Gunn (BGS), Dr S Wade (HR Wallingford), Dr N Paulley (TRL).
AIM: To determine:
- What will be the nature of the UK transport system in 2050 (taken as the mid-point of the UKCIP scenarios), both in terms of its physical characteristics and its usage?
- What will be the shape of the transport network in 2050 that will be most resilient to climate change?
Objectives:
- The development of a number of possible UK transport scenarios for 2050 (Work Package 1).
- The identification of a route corridor for the study together with an inventory of infrastructure assets for that route corridor (Work Package 2).
- The development of conceptual models of weather/climate induced failure mechanisms of transport systems, together with meteorological and climatic trigger levels (Work Package 3).
- The development of a modelling methodology that will integrate the work of the first three objectives, and allow the effect of climate change on the resilience of transport networks to be systematically studied (Work Package 4).
- The development of generic tools that can be applied to other transport corridors and the wide dissemination of the results amongst stakeholders (Work Package 5).
Website: FUTURENET
Further details:
Download summary leaflet (pdf, 800 KB)
April 2011 Conference output:
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