Transport infrastructure systems play a pivotal role in supporting society through provision of essential connectivity services to end-users, alongside enabling economic growth. To be able to deal with an increasingly complex and interconnected world and uncertain future, transport systems need to be more sustainable and resilient.
In the context of increasing global supply chain vulnerabilities and the critical need to decarbonise maritime transportation, we are delighted to announce that The Resilience Shift will play a lead role in the Navigating a Changing Climate partnership during its next phase.
Resilience First, in partnership with Intel, have published a whitepaper on “Decarbonisation and the role of technology’, outlining how technology and innovation can be harnessed to cut emissions and accelerate the path to net-zero.
The webinar series “Decarbonisation and the role of technology’ looks at the role technology can play in helping to decarbonise a range of different sectors. This second webinar focussed on …
Resilience First are running a series of webinars throughout March on the role innovative technologies can play in decarbonisation across a range of different sectors. See the programme and the event report from this week’s event.
This innovative project promises to make a real difference to resilience – find out more about its work, and join the discussion at its next workshop (27/10) on new adaptation measures
Following its launch, we are delighted to support this valuable work by the Coalition for Urban Transitions, that sets out investment priorities for national governments post Covid to boost their economies today and progress toward long-term resilience and prosperity tomorrow.
Dr Juliet Mian was a speaker and panellist on Emerging Stronger: Upstream Actions for Environmental, Climate Change and Disaster Resilience in Transport Infrastructure, at this this year’s Asia-Pacific Transport Forum, taking place as a Virtual Meeting from 24-28 August 2020.
This article featured in Cereal Foods World explores the relationship between food supply chain resilience and critical infrastructure.
In this guest blog, we invite Nicole Lee and Clement Ho to consider how urban transportation worldwide is changed by the Covid-19 pandemic, what new approaches are being developed, and what it could mean for the future of transport resilience.
Roads and transport are critical for maintaining the movement of essential goods, supplies, services and workers, and ensuring integrity of the supply chain. We share emerging issues from the World Road Association (PIARC)’s series of COVID-19 webinars that have enabled their global community to share real-time pandemic impacts and responses.
The global supply of food is an incredibly complex system, involving multiple actors and a diverse value chain from production through to consumption. Every part of the chain is dependent on infrastructure systems. We share six principles for enhancing the resilience of food transportation systems from our contribution to Cereal Foods World.
The resilience of airlines is being severely tested with a competitive market, the cost of operating and now the hit on passenger numbers with the coronavirus outbreak. The latest casualty is Flybe. It …
Sarah Reeves, now at DEFRA, was one of the TRL team behind the Roads and Rail resilience primers. She interviewed individuals working across the road and rail sector, and we were keen to hear her reflections.
Since September 2019, bushfires in Australia have burned through some 10 million hectares of land. The fires have made headlines globally. With many months to go in the fire season, what does this mean for Australia’s infrastructure, and are there wider lessons for the resilience shift?
A resilience round-table with professional institutions and associations focused on their potential contribution to critical infrastructure resilience
The Resilience Shift took part in the FORESEE Project’s workshop on how “eyes in the sky’ are proving a valuable tool to improving the resilience of transport infrastructure
This major end user of transport infrastructure across 13 countries is heavily dependent on infrastructure owned and operated by others. How does it put resilience into practice?
This highways infrastructure operator in Italy manages and operates a major motorway. How does it put resilience into practice?
