profiles are very similar3.
Although a significant share of the weather impacts is already today taken into account in the
design, a change in the strength and/or frequency of damaging impacts may cause a need to
change road structures (Saarelainen and Makkonen, 2007). For example, trenches and bridges,
and culvert structures of smaller roads have not been designed for high precipitation
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