Building resilient roads

The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) announced today its collaboration with the World Bank Group under the African Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP) to enhance climate resilience along the Djibouti Regional Economic Corridor

Summer 2024's record heat is creating problems for transportation infrastructure, from roads to rails.

Melting roads and buckling rails are disrupting travel, with the most vulnerable populations affected the worst. A concerted approach is needed to keep people moving as the world gets hotter.

The Climate Investment Funds’ resilience programming helped build or rehabilitate more than 12,000 units of small-scale infrastructure and almost 3,000 km of roads. A new Results Deep Dive publication looks into what was delivered in 15 countries.

Korean engineers develop an easy-to-install, economical, and quick-to-use concrete mat as an alternative to traditional road paving.

A recently launched ADB manual discusses how governments in the region can strengthen existing infrastructure and ensure a safe, climate-resilient road network. Here are four ways to make roads in Central Asia more climate resilient.

Integrated road management systems and climate-responsive strategies are key to enhancing road resilience. Policymakers should act now to safeguard road networks against climate challenges.

The increasing frequency and severity of extreme natural events and disasters and their cascading impacts on critical infrastructure highlight the importance of integrating risk and resilience into transport asset management.

This note summarizes lessons and practices deployed in embedding climate resilience into the design of projects that received catalytic funds from The Africa Climate Resilience Investment Facility (AFRI-RES).

The design of most of our transportation infrastructure was based on the climate of the mid-20th century. As climate change continues to warm the planet and make weather more extreme, much of that infrastructure will become less safe and reliable.