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17TH World Congress on Road Winter Service, Resilience and Decarbonisation - Pre-proceedings of the Congress

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Resilience Session 05 - Improving resilience planning

Wednesday, March 11 14:00 - 15:30
Chair: Stuart Woods, Lead Advisor in Resilience & TC1.4 English-speaking secretary, New Zealand, [Co-chair] Juan Fernando Mendoza Sánchez, Head of Infrastructure Laboratories Division & TC1.4 Spanish-speaking secretary, Mexico
Room: Room 3

This session focuses on strategies to enhance the resilience of road infrastructure against climate change and other hazards. Experts will discuss methods to assess vulnerability, integrate risk-based planning, and prioritize adaptive measures that strengthen transport connectivity and reliability.
Key topics include climate risk modeling, asset management integration, the use of geospatial and monitoring technologies, and policy frameworks that support resilient investment decisions. Case studies will highlight practical approaches to designing, maintaining, and managing road networks that can withstand and recover from extreme events while minimizing socioeconomic impacts.

  1. Welcome and session introduction
  2. Presentations
  3. Questions and Answers
  4. Conclusion
  5. Organization

Welcome and session introduction

• Stuart Woods, Lead Advisor in Resilience & TC1.4 English-speaking secretary, New Zealand

Presentations

Development of All-Hazards Resilience Framework for Road Networks
• Johan Hansen, Krishna Naidoo, Gordana Petkovic, Chris Gichuki, WG1 co-leaders

  • Weathering the Storm: Adapting Victoria's Infrastructure to Climate Change
    • Caroline EVANS (Infrastructure Victoria, Australia, Australia)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 530KB)
  • Questions and Answers
  • Comprehensive assessment of the physical and functional vulnerability of the French national road network to climate change impacts
    • André HORTH (MINISTÈRE DE L’AMÉNAGEMENT DU TERRITOIRE ET DE LA DÉCENTRALISATION, France)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 1.3MB)
  • Advancing Climate Resilience in Transportation: The BC Ministry of Transportation & Transit Resilience System
    • Bryan CROSBY (BC Ministry of Transportation & Transit, Canada)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 1.3MB)
  • A Random Forest Machine Learning Tool to Assess the Exposure of Quebec's Road Network to Fluvial Hazards
    • Marco GAVA (Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable, Canada)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 951KB)

Questions and Answers

• Moderator: Krishna Naidoo, Material and pavement specialist, SANRAL, South Africa

Conclusion

• Stuart Woods, Lead Advisor in Resilience & TC1.4 English-speaking secretary, New Zealand
• Juan Fernando Mendoza Sánchez, Head of Infrastructure Laboratories Division & TC1.4 Spanish-speaking secretary, Mexico

Organization

Session Organiser: Stuart Woods, Lead Advisor in Resilience & TC1.4 English-speaking secretary, New Zealand
Session co-organiser: Juan Fernando Mendoza Sánchez, Head of Infrastructure Laboratories Division & TC1.4 Spanish-speaking secretary, Mexico
Session Secretary: Marie Colin, Technical Advisor in Infrastructure resilience & Chair of TC1.4, France
Session co-secretary : Johan Hansen, Risk Manager at Swedish Transport Administration, Sweden