Resilience Session 05 - Improving resilience planning
Wednesday, March 11
14:00
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15:30
Chair: Stuart Woods, Lead Advisor in Resilience & TC1.4 English-speaking secretary, New Zealand, [Co-chair] Juan Fernando Mendoza Sánchez, Head of Infrastructure Laboratories Division & TC1.4 Spanish-speaking secretary, Mexico
Room: Room 3
This session focused on strategies to enhance the resilience of road infrastructure against climate change and other hazards. Experts discussed methods to assess vulnerability, integrate risk-based planning, and prioritize adaptive measures that strengthened transport connectivity and reliability.
Key topics included climate risk modeling, asset management integration, the use of geospatial and monitoring technologies, and policy frameworks that supported resilient investment decisions. Case studies highlighted practical approaches to designing, maintaining, and managing road networks that could withstand and recover from extreme events while minimizing socioeconomic impacts.
- Welcome and session introduction
- Presentations
- Questions and Answers
- Presentations
- Questions and Answers
- Conclusion
- Organization
Welcome and session introduction
• Stuart Woods, Lead Advisor in Resilience & TC1.4 English-speaking secretary, New Zealand
Presentations
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Development of All-Hazards Resilience Framework for Road Networks
Questions and Answers
Presentations
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Comprehensive assessment of the physical and functional vulnerability of the French national road network to climate change impacts
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Advancing Climate Resilience in Transportation: The BC Ministry of Transportation & Transit Resilience System
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A Random Forest Machine Learning Tool to Assess the Exposure of Quebec's Road Network to Fluvial Hazards
Questions and Answers
• Moderator: Krishna Naidoo, Material and pavement specialist, SANRAL, South Africa
Conclusion
• Stuart Woods, Lead Advisor in Resilience & TC1.4 English-speaking secretary, New Zealand
• Juan Fernando Mendoza Sánchez, Head of Infrastructure Laboratories Division & TC1.4 Spanish-speaking secretary, Mexico
Organization
Session Organiser: Stuart Woods, Lead Advisor in Resilience & TC1.4 English-speaking secretary, New Zealand
Session co-organiser: Juan Fernando Mendoza Sánchez, Head of Infrastructure Laboratories Division & TC1.4 Spanish-speaking secretary, Mexico
Session Secretary: Marie Colin, Technical Advisor in Infrastructure resilience & Chair of TC1.4, France
Session co-secretary : Johan Hansen, Risk Manager at Swedish Transport Administration, Sweden