Sector Briefing on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: Transport (Roads)
Asian Development Bank | January 2012
Abstract
Natural hazards and climate change affect the planning, design, construction, maintenance, safety, and performance of roads throughout their service life. In addition, activities within the transportation can increase vulnerability of the local environment and population to climate change.
Citation
Asian Development Bank. 2012. Sector Briefing on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: Transport (Roads). © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/2600. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Climate
Climate change
Transport
Demand For Transport
Means Of Transport
Nonmotorized Transport
Transport Costs
Transport Efficiency
Transport Infrastructure
Transport Planning
Climatic change
Greenhouse effect
Ozone depletion
Modes of transport
Road traffic
Buses
Commuting
Urban traffic
Tranport statistics
Transport networks
Climate and civilization
City planning
Urban climatology
Climate change mitigation
Global warming
Clean energy investment
Risk return relationship
Communication and traffic
Local transit
Demand responsive transportation
Passenger traffic
Traffic engineering
Mass transit
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