Climate resilientnetworks

And possibilities for cross-border cooperation toachieve robust (transport) corridors

Evrim Akar

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On the road from Belgium to the Netherlands…

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2050?

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Faced with challenges

• Do we want our roads to be able to substituteour rivers for freight transport?

• Are we ready for the consequences in case of extreme weather conditions and suddenchanges in weather?

• What is the impact of climate change on logistics planning?

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Climate Resilient Networks

In 2050, The Netherlands is climateresilient

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Climate change adaptation for Rijkswaterstaat

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Scope Climate Resilient Networks

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Risk management and climate resilience

Climate effects on safety and reliability

Economic impacts

Cost of measurements

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Challenges, ideas and cooperation

A cross-border stresstest on robustness of transport corridors in which climate is one of the explicite variables)

Collaboration with logistics sector on international level

Cost-benefit analyses to deal with consequences of climatechange

Big Data and monitoring of impacts (for better forecast models and better adaptationplans)

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Thank you!

What are your ideas?