Road transport
operation and
infrastructure planning
– case Finland
Heikki Tuomenvirta and Adriaan Perrels
Climate Change Research Unit
Socie-economic impacts of climate and weather
+ ca. 5000 (streets, private, etc)
VENÄLÄINEN, A. and KANGAS, M., 2003. Estimation of winter road maintenance costs using climate data. Meteorol. Appl. 10, 69-73.
INCREASE OF TRAFFIC VOLUME 2006 -> 2030
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Kristín S. Vogfjörð,Icelandic Meteorological Office
Páll Einarsson, University of Iceland
Faculty Representative
Ingi Þorleifur Bjarnason
Faculty of Earth Sciences
School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
University of Iceland
Reykjavik, October 2009
Abstract
The two rift zones in southern Iceland, the western and the eastern volcanic zones, are
connected
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Climate change adaptation in European river basins
Patrick Huntjens • Claudia Pahl-Wostl •
John Grin
Received: 1 July 2008 / Accepted: 24 December 2009 / Published online: 2 February 2010
The Author(s) 2010. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
Abstract This paper contains an assessment and stan-
dardized comparative analysis of the current water man
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References
• Barro, R.J., Jin, T. (2009). ON THE SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF MACROECONOMIC DISASTERS,
NBER Working Paper 15247, http://www.nber.org/papers/w15247
• Nurmi, V. and Perrels, A. (2011), ECONOMIC VALUE OF WEATHER FORE-CASTS ON
TRANSPORTATION – estimating the benefits of present and improved future weather forecasts on
the transportation sector, FP7 EWENT
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