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

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Strategic Direction Session on Resilience - Resilience of the Road Network

Tuesday, March 10 16:30 - 18:00
Chair: Caroline EVANS, Strategic Theme 1 Coordinator, PIARC, Australia
Room: Room 3

Strategic Theme 1 Roads Administration responds to the key issues facing road administrators today and aims to provide information on how to address them. This includes the performance of transport administrations and a wide range of tasks, from maintaining and improving road networks, to managing finance and procurement, to planning for the resilience of these networks in the face of extreme weather events and changing hazard risk.

This session will focus on the cross-cutting issue of resilience of the road network in the context of social and economic development, methodologies and approaches for assessing resilience, finance and procurement, and embedding resilient action before, during and after disaster events. There will be 3 topics of discussion. These include a framing of how resilience is covered by 4 PIARC TCs within Strategic Theme 1 (TC1.2, 1.4 and 1.5), challenges and gaps across different dimensions of resilience, and how resilience can be considered in the next PIARC cycle?

  1. Welcome and session introduction
  2. Presentations
  3. Discussion
  4. Presentations
  5. Guided discussion with audience
  6. Conclusion
  7. Organization

Welcome and session introduction

• Caroline EVANS, Strategic Theme 1 Coordinator, PIARC, Australia

Presentations

  • How does each TC address resilience in this cycle?
    • Ilaria COPPA (Italy) - Chair of TC 1.2 "Contribution of Roads to Economic and Social Development"
    • Marie COLIN (France) - Chair of TC 1.4 "Planning the Resilience of Road Networks - Climate Change and other Hazards"
    • Yukio ADACHI (Japan) - Chair of TC 1.5 "Disaster Management"

Discussion

• Moderator : Caroline EVANS, Strategic Theme 1 Coordinator of PIARC, Australia

Presentations

  • Challenges and gaps in different dimensions of resilience
    • Welekazi NDIKA (South Africa) - Member of TC 1.2 "Contribution of Roads to Economic and Social Development"
    • Gordana PETKOVIC (Norway) - Member of TC 1.4 "Planning the Resilience of Road Networks - Climate Change and other Hazards"
    • Chris ENGELBRECHT (United States) - Member of TC 1.5 "Disaster Management"

Guided discussion with audience

• Moderator : All the presentors

Conclusion

• Caroline EVANS, Strategic Theme 1 Coordinator, PIARC, Australia

Organization

Session Organiser: Caroline EVANS, Strategic Theme 1 Coordinator, PIARC, Australia
Session Secretary: To be announced