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Adapting infrastructures to climate change is no longer an option! Many organizations highlight the risks associated with inaction and the additional costs of purely reactive emergency actions, synonymous with "badadaptating." Anticipating resilience allows for prioritizing issues, optimizing costs, and leveraging actions. Highways are essential supports for mobility, accelerating their ecological [...]

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A fire accident involving 23 vehicles occurred on September 5, 2023, in the Amakoyama Tunnel of the Sanyo Expressway in Japan, a 592-meter-long mountain tunnel that has been in service for about 40 years. The fire caused severe damage, including extensive discoloration and spalling of the concrete lining. It took 102 days for the road restoration and closure to be lifted. It was one of the worst [...]

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Extreme weather conditions can influence the operability of electric vehicles (EVs) and autonomous vehicles (AVs), affecting safety and resilience as these vehicles become increasingly integrated into the transportation network. A combination of mesoscale and microscale modeling is useful to quantify the operational weather domain of operable and inoperable days, with a focus on capturing localized [...]

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The M25 or London Orbital Motorway is a major road encircling most of Greater London. The 117-mile-long (188 km) motorway is one of the most strategically important roads in the UK and the busiest. It is fundamental to the social and economic wellbeing of London, south-east England and the wider UK, with critical national infrastructure on and adjacent to it, e.g. Heathrow Airport. Connect Plus Services [...]

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In recent years, landslides caused by torrential rains have occurred in many parts of Japan. In July 2023, heavy rainfall caused by the rainy season front caused river flooding and landslides in a wide area in northern Kyushu, with some areas receiving more than twice the normal monthly precipitation in July in two weeks. Several expressways managed by the Kurume Expressway Office of West Nippon Expressway [...]

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The most recent seismic map in Indonesia was published in 2017 and the seismic events in Indonesia 2017-2024 have revealed the seismic vulnerability of infrastructure in Indonesia. A new Seismic Hazard Map 2024 was released and there is a significant increase in hazard. Additionally,most of the research seismic vulnerability in Indonesia so far has been also concerned with the prediction of the horizontal [...]

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When a crisis occurs due to a natural phenomenon (floods, earthquakes, cyclones...), the maintenance of transport infrastructure is a particularly important issue in crisis management and the organization of relief: access to disaster areas, evacuation of victims to hospitals and health centers, service of strategic equipment of the territory, vital networks and distribution of energy or means of [...]

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Germany's transport infrastructure is essential for the country's society and economy. Maintenance of federal roads is a major challenge for the present and future, especially considering the increase in natural disasters related to extreme weather events in the context of climate change. Following the events of the flood disaster in July 2021 in Western Germany, the BASt was commissioned by the Federal [...]

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The phenomenon of global warming induced by climate change, as has been well documented, is leading to an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Consequently, even more severe and massive floods are affecting our urban environment and infrastructures, causing significant losses and damages. In Italy, socio-economic and demographic development since the Second World War [...]

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In the past, measures for traffic managements during abnormal snowfall were taken with the aim of keeping traffic flowing as much as possible. However, in recent years, abnormal snowfall has occurred every year, and each time this has resulted in large-scale traffic congestion, forcing long-term traffic stoppages. A notable example of this is the large-scale traffic congestion that occurred on the [...]

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Japan’s territory is prone to natural disasters such as earthquakes, heavy rains, and tsunamis, due to its geographical and topographical conditions. In light of lifesaving, isolation prevention, improvement of life after disaster against the increasing severity of natural disasters and the anticipated occurrence of the Nankai Trough earthquake in the near future, there is a growing need for temporary [...]

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During the last century, rising of temperatures, generated by the large-scale emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, has profoundly altered the climate balance, with alarming consequences for ecosystems and communities. The effects are mainly related to major changes in the precipitation regime: rainfall has changed its trend, becoming less regular and especially very intense in the short [...]

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The RN134, a strategic European route linking France and Spain via the Somport tunnel (8,600 m long - altitude 1,100 m) and the Somport pass (1,632 m) in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques region, is regularly subjected to severe weather. These episodes, often marked by landslides, falling rocks, heavy snowfalls or flooding, highlight the resilience challenges facing this mountain road. One of the main threats [...]

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In a context of increasing natural hazards and growing economic pressures, Structurally Dissipative Rockfall Barriers (SDRB) offer a relevant, economical, and effective technical solution for protecting road and rail infrastructure against rockfalls.Structurally dissipative rockfall barriers (PSD) are the new generation of active protection solutions against rockfalls, based on energy control and [...]

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Indonesia, as an archipelagic nation located along the Pacific Ring of Fire, is highly vulnerable to tsunami hazards due to its frequent seismic and volcanic activity posing persistent risks to coastal communities. In recent decades, major tsunamis have caused significant loss of life and infrastructure damage, highlighting the urgent need for comprehensive disaster risk management and resilient evacuation [...]

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The lowest recorded extreme winter temperature in China has reached -58°C. Under such extreme weather conditions, bridges may suffer from various severe hazards. These hazards primarily include ice and snow accumulation on the deck, concrete frost heave and cracking, salt corrosion caused by improper deicing salt usage, ice shedding from stay cables, bridge deck icing due to dense fog, and strong [...]

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The national roads RN 20 (beyond Tarascon-sur-Ariège), RN 320, and RN 22 are managed by DIRSO (state service responsible for road management in south-western France) and serve as the sole access routes to Andorra from France. These roads, which reach altitudes exceeding 2100 meters, are subject to significant natural hazards during the winter season. In addition to managing winter services amidst [...]