Evaluation of Climate Change Resilience of Urban Road Network Strategies
Evaluation of Climate Change Resilience of Urban Road Network Strategies
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DOI：
10.3390/infrastructures7110146
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发表时间：
2022-10
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影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Siama Begum;Rachel S. Fisher;E. Ferranti;A. Quinn
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作者：
Siama Begum;Rachel S. Fisher;E. Ferranti;A. Quinn
近年来，气候变化的影响对英国的公路网造成了广泛的破坏。道路对经济增长和社会福祉至关重要，网络中断可能造成灾难性后果。由于气候变化的影响将在区域和地方各级感受到，地方公路管理局有责任制定有效的政策，以加强其公路网路段的复原力。本报告以西米德兰兹郡为案例研究，旨在评估其区域公路网管理战略，以确定这些战略在多大程度上促进了对气候变化的适应能力。建议和其他文献的研究结果被用来建立一套评价标准，比较西米德兰兹地区的公路网管理策略的成熟度。对政策文件的评价被用来对战略的成熟程度进行排名，并向地方当局提出建议，以突出战略可以改进的地方。该分析强调了整个区域公路战略之间的分散和差异，以及该区域对气候变化的脆弱性。
The impacts of the changing climate have caused extensive disruption to the road network in the United Kingdom in recent years. Roads are vital for economic growth and social wellbeing, and a disruption to the network can have disastrous consequences. Since the impacts of climate change will be felt at regional and local levels, it is the responsibility of local highway authorities to establish effective policies to strengthen the resilience of their section of the road network. This report uses the West Midlands as a case study and aims to evaluate its regional highway network management strategies, to determine the extent to which they promote resilience to climate change. Recommendations and findings from other literature are used to establish a set of evaluation criteria to compare the maturity of highway network management strategies for the West Midlands region. The evaluation of the policy documents is used to rank the maturity of the strategies, and recommendations are made to local authorities to highlight where the strategies could be improved. The analysis highlights the fragmentation and disparity between highways strategies across the region and consequently the vulnerability of the region to climate change.