From A Rocky Road to Smooth Sailing

Reliable transport infrastructure is one of the backbones of a prosperous economy, providingaccess to markets, jobs and social services. Sustainable Development Goal 9 (SDG9) calls forincreased access to sustainable transport infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries.Collectively, these countries will need to spend between 0.5 percent and 3.3 percent of their GDPannually (157 billion to 1 trillion US Dollars) in new transport infrastructure by 2030 – plus an additional 1 percent to 2 percent of GDP to maintain their network – depending on their ambition and their efficiency in service delivery (Rozenberg and Fay, 2019). Because of the wide spatial distribution of transport infrastructure, many transport assets are exposed and vulnerable to natural hazards, increasing costs for national transport agencies and operators. During the 2015 floods in Tbilisi, Georgia, the repair of transport assets contributed approximately 60 percent of the total damage cost (GFDRR, 2015). In the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan, accessibility as measured by the length of open networks directly after the shock dropped by 86 percent for highways and by 71 percent for railways (Kazama and Noda, 2012b). Such transport disruptions necessarily have direct impacts on the local economy. Employees face difficulties commuting, access to firms is disrupted for clients, interruptions in the supply chain inhibit production, and finished products cannot be easily shipped (Kajitani and Tatano, 2014). The paper, prepared as background material for the Lifelines report on infrastructure resilience, summarizes the main findings on the risk faced by transport networks and users as a result of natural disasters and climate change, and the main recommendations for building more resilient transport networks. It starts by describing how transport disruptions affect firms and households either directly and through supply chains. It then proposes a range of approaches and solutions for building more resilient transport networks, showing that the additional cost of resilience is not high if resources are well spent. Finally, it provides a set of practical recommendations.

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Main Authors: Espinet Alegre, Xavier, Rozenberg, Julie, Avner, Paolo, Fox, Charles, Koks, Elco, Hallegatte, Stephane, Tariverdi, Mersedeh, Rentschler, Jun
Format: Report biblioteca
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2019-06
Subjects:TRANSPORT NETWORK, NATURAL DISASTER, DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT, ROADS, RAILWAYS, URBAN FLOODS, RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE, CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT, TRANSPORT SYSTEM, URBAN TRANSPORT, TRADE LOGISTICS, INFRASTRUCTURE,
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/891291560793167919/From-A-Rocky-Road-to-Smooth-Sailing-Building-Transport-Resilience-to-Natural-Disasters
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spelling dig-okr-10986319132024-08-07T19:08:35Z From A Rocky Road to Smooth Sailing Building Transport Resilience to Natural Disasters Espinet Alegre, Xavier Rozenberg, Julie Avner, Paolo Fox, Charles Koks, Elco Hallegatte, Stephane Tariverdi, Mersedeh Rentschler, Jun Avner, Paolo TRANSPORT NETWORK NATURAL DISASTER DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT ROADS RAILWAYS URBAN FLOODS RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT TRANSPORT SYSTEM URBAN TRANSPORT TRADE LOGISTICS INFRASTRUCTURE Reliable transport infrastructure is one of the backbones of a prosperous economy, providingaccess to markets, jobs and social services. Sustainable Development Goal 9 (SDG9) calls forincreased access to sustainable transport infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries.Collectively, these countries will need to spend between 0.5 percent and 3.3 percent of their GDPannually (157 billion to 1 trillion US Dollars) in new transport infrastructure by 2030 – plus an additional 1 percent to 2 percent of GDP to maintain their network – depending on their ambition and their efficiency in service delivery (Rozenberg and Fay, 2019). Because of the wide spatial distribution of transport infrastructure, many transport assets are exposed and vulnerable to natural hazards, increasing costs for national transport agencies and operators. During the 2015 floods in Tbilisi, Georgia, the repair of transport assets contributed approximately 60 percent of the total damage cost (GFDRR, 2015). In the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan, accessibility as measured by the length of open networks directly after the shock dropped by 86 percent for highways and by 71 percent for railways (Kazama and Noda, 2012b). Such transport disruptions necessarily have direct impacts on the local economy. Employees face difficulties commuting, access to firms is disrupted for clients, interruptions in the supply chain inhibit production, and finished products cannot be easily shipped (Kajitani and Tatano, 2014). The paper, prepared as background material for the Lifelines report on infrastructure resilience, summarizes the main findings on the risk faced by transport networks and users as a result of natural disasters and climate change, and the main recommendations for building more resilient transport networks. It starts by describing how transport disruptions affect firms and households either directly and through supply chains. It then proposes a range of approaches and solutions for building more resilient transport networks, showing that the additional cost of resilience is not high if resources are well spent. Finally, it provides a set of practical recommendations. 2019-06-19T20:53:05Z 2019-06-19T20:53:05Z 2019-06 Report Rapport Informe http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/891291560793167919/From-A-Rocky-Road-to-Smooth-Sailing-Building-Transport-Resilience-to-Natural-Disasters https://hdl.handle.net/10986/31913 English Background paper for Lifelines; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank application/pdf text/plain World Bank, Washington, DC
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topic TRANSPORT NETWORK
NATURAL DISASTER
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
ROADS
RAILWAYS
URBAN FLOODS
RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
TRANSPORT SYSTEM
URBAN TRANSPORT
TRADE LOGISTICS
INFRASTRUCTURE
TRANSPORT NETWORK
NATURAL DISASTER
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
ROADS
RAILWAYS
URBAN FLOODS
RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
TRANSPORT SYSTEM
URBAN TRANSPORT
TRADE LOGISTICS
INFRASTRUCTURE
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TRANSPORT SYSTEM
URBAN TRANSPORT
TRADE LOGISTICS
INFRASTRUCTURE
TRANSPORT NETWORK
NATURAL DISASTER
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
ROADS
RAILWAYS
URBAN FLOODS
RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
TRANSPORT SYSTEM
URBAN TRANSPORT
TRADE LOGISTICS
INFRASTRUCTURE
Espinet Alegre, Xavier
Rozenberg, Julie
Avner, Paolo
Fox, Charles
Koks, Elco
Hallegatte, Stephane
Tariverdi, Mersedeh
Rentschler, Jun
Avner, Paolo
From A Rocky Road to Smooth Sailing
description Reliable transport infrastructure is one of the backbones of a prosperous economy, providingaccess to markets, jobs and social services. Sustainable Development Goal 9 (SDG9) calls forincreased access to sustainable transport infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries.Collectively, these countries will need to spend between 0.5 percent and 3.3 percent of their GDPannually (157 billion to 1 trillion US Dollars) in new transport infrastructure by 2030 – plus an additional 1 percent to 2 percent of GDP to maintain their network – depending on their ambition and their efficiency in service delivery (Rozenberg and Fay, 2019). Because of the wide spatial distribution of transport infrastructure, many transport assets are exposed and vulnerable to natural hazards, increasing costs for national transport agencies and operators. During the 2015 floods in Tbilisi, Georgia, the repair of transport assets contributed approximately 60 percent of the total damage cost (GFDRR, 2015). In the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan, accessibility as measured by the length of open networks directly after the shock dropped by 86 percent for highways and by 71 percent for railways (Kazama and Noda, 2012b). Such transport disruptions necessarily have direct impacts on the local economy. Employees face difficulties commuting, access to firms is disrupted for clients, interruptions in the supply chain inhibit production, and finished products cannot be easily shipped (Kajitani and Tatano, 2014). The paper, prepared as background material for the Lifelines report on infrastructure resilience, summarizes the main findings on the risk faced by transport networks and users as a result of natural disasters and climate change, and the main recommendations for building more resilient transport networks. It starts by describing how transport disruptions affect firms and households either directly and through supply chains. It then proposes a range of approaches and solutions for building more resilient transport networks, showing that the additional cost of resilience is not high if resources are well spent. Finally, it provides a set of practical recommendations.
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Rozenberg, Julie
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