Documents section includes documents related to climate change impacts and adaptation for transportation.

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• Overview documents
• Highways and roads
• Pavement
• St. Lawrence Seaway

Overview documents
Overview documents including literature reviews, workshop summaries and discussion documents:

• US Department of Transport (DOT)
  • DOT. (1998). Transportation and Global Climate Change: A Review and Analysis of the Literature. Final Report. Prepared for US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Office of Environment and Planning.
• London Climate Change Partnership
  • London Climate Change Partnership. (2005). Climate Change and London’s Transport Systems: Summary Report. London: Greater London Authority.
• Transport Canada
  • Marbek Resource Consultants. (2003). Impacts of Climate Change on Transportation in Canada. Transport Canada, Canmore Workshop. Final Workshop Report. Government of Canada, Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness.
• University of Manitoba
  • Abdel-Hay, K., Harrison, B., Turriff, S., can Rosmalen, C. (2003). Transportation & Climate Chang in Manitoba – Proceedings. Proceedings of the Transportation and Climate Change in Manitoba 2003 Workshop. Prepared by the University of Manitoba Transport Institute for Manitoba Transportation & Government Services.

Highways and roads
Studies examining the impacts of climate change on highway and road infrastructure and technology:

• Government of Scotland
  • Galbraith, R., Price, D., & Shackman, L. (2005). Scottish Road Network Climate Change Study. Edinburgh: Scottish Executive.

Pavement
Climate change impacts on pavement technologies:

• Geoscience Australia
  • Cechet, B. (--). Climate Change Impact on the Pavement Maintenance and Rehabilitation Costs Associated with the Australian National Highway Network. Risk Research Group, Geospatial and Earth Monitoring Division, Geoscience Australia (not available on web).

St. Lawrence Seaway
Impacts of climate change on transportation in the St. Lawrence Seaway:

• Ouranos Consortium
  • D’Arcy, P., Bibeault, J., & Raffa, R. (2005). Changement Climatiques et Transport Maritime sur le Saint Laurent. Étude exploratuire d’options d’adaptation. Réalisé pour le Comité de concentration navigation du Plan d’action Saint-Laurent. Montréal: Ouranos.