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Extreme Weather Hazards and Transportation Vulnerability

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Revised on: 2011-03-29

Weather Extremes: Assessment of Impacts on Transport Systems and Hazards for European Regions. That is the formal title of the WEATHER project, a project that is funded through the 7th framework program of the European Union and undertaken by a consortium of 8 partner institutions, lead by the Fraunhofer-Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) in Karlsruhe, Germany. The WEATHER project aims at analysing the economic costs of more frequent and more extreme weather events on transport and on the wider economy and explores adaptation strategies for reducing them in the context of sustainable policy design. The project has been running since 2009 and perhaps it is now time to look at some of their deliverables and what has been delivered so far?

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No grit No roads No show?

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Revised on: 2015-09-11

Today’s rather cryptic title reflects on the impacts of the current winter weather, and is a fitting follow-up to yesterday’s article on the security of supply.  The UK transportation systems seems to be particularly suffering under heavy loads of snow, and now they seem to be running out of salt and grit for their snowed-in roads. No grit means no cleared roads means no one able to get anywhere and a no-show of people everywhere.

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