Tomorrow's Railway and Climate Change Adaptation Final Report

4 Phase 2 summary
A summary of the work undertaken in Phase Two is provided in this report. Detailed
reports from Phase 2 are provided as a series of appendices which accompany this
report. The work was delivered in a series of tasks as detailed below:
Task 1 Economics of climate change adaptation
Task 1A Review of information and data
Task 1B Climate change emission scenarios
Task 1C Assessment of risk posed by climate change
Task 1D Identify quick wins
Task 1E Western Route Case study
Task 2 Study of comparable future climates / railways
Task 2A Temporal and spatial characterisation of future climate
Task 2B Identification of analogous climates
Task 2C Compendium of resilience measures
Task 2D Opportunities for overseas partnerships
Task 3 Metrics evaluation
Task 3A/B Compendium of metrics
Task 3C Review of metrics
Task 3D How metrics can be used
Task 3E Piloting proposed metrics (Western Route combined case study)
Task 4 Systems modelling
Task 4A Review of systems based risks
Task 4B Commentary of different organisations
Task 4C Consideration of metrics used in other tasks
Task 4D Characterise the railway as a system of systems
Task 4E Identification of dependencies
Task 4F Immingham/Drax combined case study
Task 5 Geographic systems modelling
Task 5A Review of GIS based risk and vulnerability identification and assessment
tools that are available and in use
Task 5B Consideration of metrics used in other tasks
Task 5C Suitability of current and future tools/approaches - grouping assets in
relation to effects
Task 5D An investigation into how GIS-based analyses are being used and can
form decision support tools
Task 5E Development of system requirements for GIS based decision support
tools
Task 5F Western Route and Immingham/Drax combined case studies
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