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Climate change is beginning to be measurable and, no matter what we do to mitigate it, a rise of global temperatures by 2°C to 4°C within this century is no longer avoidable. The consequences will be more extreme events such as hot and dry summers, heavy winter storms, storm surges, floods and landslides. The need for adaptation is recognised, but the magnitudes and consequences of these changes in the weather system are not yet well understood. Therefore, the WEATHER project aims at analysing the economic costs of climate change on transport systems in Europe and explores ways for reducing them in the context of sustainable policy design. More information on the research streams and the project consortium are given on the following pages.
Latest development and upcoming activities in the WEATHER project:
Newsletter #1 issued
Within the course of the WEATHER project a couple of newsletters are foreseen to disseminate our results and upcoming project events. All issues will be provided on the project website and will be curculated via our email distribution list. Please see Publications/Newsletter for the PDF document and options for adding and removing your email address to our dissemination list.
Publications / Newsletters
Workshop 3: Adapting Transport to Weather Extremes, Rotterdam, 20.5.2011
The project team has organised the third and last targeted workshop on options to increase the resilience of transport systems to weather extremes on May 20th 2011 in Rotterdam. Considered were strategies in the fields of infrastructure and vehicle technology, system operations and planning procedures across all modes and European climate regions. With a mix of presentations from transport industry and academia the workshop has covered a wide range of questions and possible solutions. The workshop summary report is now available for download here:
Workshop 3: Adaption
Deliverable 3: Innovative emergency management strategies - NOW AVAILABLE
Deliverable 3 is now available online. The document gives an overview of technical and organisational issues of crises and emergency management structures and of weather information systems across Europe and develops respective policy guidelines. Main issues are clear command, control and coordination structures and the regularly updated response plans. The full report can be downloaded here:
WEATHER publications download section
Deliverable 2: Vulnerability of Transport systems - NOW AVAILABLE
With numerous annexes on climate trends, modelling issues and modal analyses, the first public report of the WEATHER project is now available. Deliverable 2 is providing a first estimate of economic losses through the past decade. Although we find that the overall annual costs of 2.5 billion Euros across Europe are manageable, there are several particularly vulnerable regions and modes, which deserve special attention. The full report can be downloaded here:
WEATHER publications download section
Workshop 2: Organizing Emergency Management strategies for the transport sector with the use of innovative IT systems, Brussels, 28.2.2011
Our second workshop dealing with Emergency Management issues for improving data provision (information flow) and organizational structures between the involved stakeholders as well as with procedures and strategies for coping with weather-related emergency cases in the transport sector was held at February 28th 2011 in Brussels. The presentations and a short summary report are available here:
Workshop 2: Emergency Management
Latest development and upcoming activities in the WEATHER project:
Newsletter #1 issued
Within the course of the WEATHER project a couple of newsletters are foreseen to disseminate our results and upcoming project events. All issues will be provided on the project website and will be curculated via our email distribution list. Please see Publications/Newsletter for the PDF document and options for adding and removing your email address to our dissemination list.
Publications / Newsletters
Workshop 3: Adapting Transport to Weather Extremes, Rotterdam, 20.5.2011
The project team has organised the third and last targeted workshop on options to increase the resilience of transport systems to weather extremes on May 20th 2011 in Rotterdam. Considered were strategies in the fields of infrastructure and vehicle technology, system operations and planning procedures across all modes and European climate regions. With a mix of presentations from transport industry and academia the workshop has covered a wide range of questions and possible solutions. The workshop summary report is now available for download here:
Workshop 3: Adaption
Deliverable 3: Innovative emergency management strategies - NOW AVAILABLE
Deliverable 3 is now available online. The document gives an overview of technical and organisational issues of crises and emergency management structures and of weather information systems across Europe and develops respective policy guidelines. Main issues are clear command, control and coordination structures and the regularly updated response plans. The full report can be downloaded here:
WEATHER publications download section
Deliverable 2: Vulnerability of Transport systems - NOW AVAILABLE
With numerous annexes on climate trends, modelling issues and modal analyses, the first public report of the WEATHER project is now available. Deliverable 2 is providing a first estimate of economic losses through the past decade. Although we find that the overall annual costs of 2.5 billion Euros across Europe are manageable, there are several particularly vulnerable regions and modes, which deserve special attention. The full report can be downloaded here:
WEATHER publications download section
Workshop 2: Organizing Emergency Management strategies for the transport sector with the use of innovative IT systems, Brussels, 28.2.2011
Our second workshop dealing with Emergency Management issues for improving data provision (information flow) and organizational structures between the involved stakeholders as well as with procedures and strategies for coping with weather-related emergency cases in the transport sector was held at February 28th 2011 in Brussels. The presentations and a short summary report are available here:
Workshop 2: Emergency Management
Workshop 1: The Vulnerability of Transport Systems, Brussels, 14.9.2010
The first official workshop of the WEATHER project was successfully conducted at September 14th 2010 at the premises of the German Research Foundation (KOWI) in Brussels. High ranking experts have exchanged knowledge, experiences and uncertainties on the vulnerability of road, rail and air transport towards weather extremes and climate change. A summary report and the key presentations and results are now available online under “Project Events” or by following the link below.
Workshop 1: Vulnerability
Kick-off Workshop November 17th 2009 in Karlsruhe
Following the administrative kick-off meeting on November 16th 2009 in Karlsruhe, the project has officially started with a kick-off workshop on the current state of weather modeling, climate adaptation policy and emergency management issues.
The presentations are available under downloads.
Kick-off Workshop November 17th 2009 in Karlsruhe
Following the administrative kick-off meeting on November 16th 2009 in Karlsruhe, the project has officially started with a kick-off workshop on the current state of weather modeling, climate adaptation policy and emergency management issues.
The presentations are available under downloads.