Climate Change Impacts on the Road Transport Infrastructure: A Systematic Review on Adaptation Measures

Victor Hugo Souza de Abreu, Andrea Souza Santos and Thaís Guedes Máximo Monteiro
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Victor Hugo Souza de Abreu: Program of Transportation Engineering, Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering (COPPE), Technology Center, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro 21941-914, Brazil
Andrea Souza Santos: Program of Transportation Engineering, Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering (COPPE), Technology Center, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro 21941-914, Brazil
Thaís Guedes Máximo Monteiro: Environmental Postgraduate Course, Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering (COPPE), Technology Center, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro 21941-914, Brazil

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 14, 1-22

Abstract: Road transport is one of the main contributors to increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, consequently aggravating global warming, but it is also one of the sectors that most suffer from climate change, which causes extreme weather events. Thus, strategies, also called adaptation measures, have been discussed to minimize the impacts of climate change on transport systems and their infrastructure; however, a knowledge gap is evident in the literature. Therefore, this article develops a systematic review with a bibliometric approach, still scarce in the literature, in renowned databases, focusing on studies developed on adaptation measures for road infrastructure. The results show that, since the development of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an increasing amount of studies on the theme have been published in recognized journals such as Science of the Total Environment, Energy and Buildings and Urban Climate, analyzing climate threats such as intense precipitations and high temperatures that have led to biophysical impacts such as flooding and urban heat island. In addition, for each type of adverse weather condition, many impacts on road infrastructure can be listed, as well as ways to detect these impacts, and adaptation measures that can be used to minimize these problems.

Keywords: climate change; road infrastructure; adaptation; highway infrastructure; pavement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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