Climate Adaptation
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Our mission is to generate knowledge that supports the achievement of national transport policy objectives.
With climate change bringing increased risks such as floods, landslides, erosion, heatwaves, droughts, and fires, there is a significant threat to accessibility, safety, and infrastructure integrity, potentially leading to costly damages. Ensuring a robust, resilient and safe infrastructure amidst these changes necessitates mitigation measures to minimize risks.
Our research aims to increase knowledge of the impacts of climate change on the transport system, including its infrastructure, human activities and the surrounding environment. We investigate and develop ways to mitigate these impacts, and we explore the policy and decision-making frameworks required for sustainable long-term planning. This interdisciplinary research integrates several sciences such as environmental science, engineering, social science, economics, and law, and is carried out in partnership with various stakeholders.
- Construction, operation and monitoring of multifunctional structures for climate adaptation. Contact: Fredrik Hellman
- COALA: Coastal Adaptation through flexible land-use. Contact: Gunnel Göransson (Coala project site on sgi.se, in Swedish
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- Navigating the Future: Towards a fossil-free and resilient transport system - climate adaptation of seaports to extreme weather events. Contact: Gunnel Göransson (Navigating the future project site)
- PolKaT: Design-driven policy lab for strengthened climate adaptation of transport system. Contact: Gunnel Göransson, Jens Portinson Hylander
- Room4water: Transition capacity to manage extreme weather events by making room for the water - from mind to map. Contact: Gunnel Göransson (Room4water project site)
- Condition assessment and cause analysis of railway subsidence with InSAR. Contact: Gunnel Göransson, Peter Torstensson
- Dynamic climate adaptation strategy for a coastal railway in southern Sweden. Contact: Gunnel Göransson
- Processes and tools for climate-resilient transport infrastructure in dense, sustainable cities. Contact: Jens Portinson Hylander
- Climate adaptation of airports. Contact: Lina Nordin
Go to VTI DiVA-portal to take part in reports and articles published in the field of Climate Adaptation of the Transport System: