🌧 DARe Co-Investigator Prof Hayley Fowler (Newcastle University) included in The Guardian article addressing the extreme rainfall seen in Europe last month. “These large storms, cut off from the jet stream, are able to stagnate in one place and produce huge amounts of rainfall, fuelled by increased moisture and energy from oceans that are record-shatteringly hot.” “These ‘blocked’ slow-moving storms are becoming more frequent and are projected to increase further with additional warming,” she added. “The question is not whether we need to adapt for more of these types of storm but can we.” ☔ Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eQpMzGnn #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #StormBoris
DARe National Hub
Research Services
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England 326 followers
Working towards decarbonised, adaptable, and resilient transport systems for a brighter future
About us
New national Hub researching the decarbonisation, resilience and adaptability of our transport networks. Newcastle University | University of Cambridge | University of Glasgow | Heriot-Watt University Funded by the Department for Transport and UKRI EPSRC Website coming soon...
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- Research Services
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- 51-200 employees
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- Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
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- 2024
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It was great to join the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) at the launch of the ICE NE Climate Action Group last week. #DAReNationalHub Director, Professor Phil Blythe CBE FREng CEng FIET FCIHT, joined Jess Cook, Adrian Johnson, and Dr Adrian Mallory for a panel discussion on the importance of managing and reducing #carbon in both new and existing infrastructure, providing insights into barriers and opportunities in carbon management in the North East. "Very few people are thinking about the #resilience of our #infrastructure alongside #decarbonisation, but it's becoming a bigger topic as the impacts and extremes of #ClimateChange kick in." "DARe brings together stakeholders from across the #transport sector to use a systems approach and understand what the nation needs." "We must make sure we're training the next generation to use #SystemsThinking - without it, we'll never come up with #sustainable solutions."
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It was great to join the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) at the launch of the ICE NE Climate Action Group last week. #DAReNationalHub Director, Professor Phil Blythe CBE FREng CEng FIET FCIHT, joined Jess Cook, Adrian Johnson, and Dr Adrian Mallory for a panel discussion on the importance of managing and reducing #carbon in both new and existing infrastructure, providing insights into barriers and opportunities in carbon management in the North East. "Very few people are thinking about the #resilience of our #infrastructure alongside #decarbonisation, but it's becoming a bigger topic as the impacts and extremes of #ClimateChange kick in." "DARe brings together stakeholders from across the #transport sector to use a systems approach and understand what the nation needs." "We must make sure we're training the next generation to use #SystemsThinking - without it, we'll never come up with #sustainable solutions."
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The Propensity to Cycle Tool, developed by the University of Cambridge, can inform #cycling investment. Find out more from Prof James Woodcock in our upcoming webinar. Book your free place here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e62exmhg
🔔 Join our next #webinar: Cycling to Cut Carbon and Boost Communities Thursday 24 October, 12-1pm Matt Burke (DARe Hub, Newcastle University) will be joined by Prof James Woodcock (University of Cambridge) and guest speaker Jonah Morris (Sustrans). In this session, we will explore: 🚲 Increasing cycling as a form of zero-emission transportation 🚲 The benefits of greater cycling adoption for health and wellbeing 🚲 How the Propensity to Cycle Tool, developed by the University of Cambridge, can inform cycling investment Book your free place now ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e62exmhg #Decarbonisation #Resilience #Modelling #Cycling #Sustainability #NetZero
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🔔 Join our next #webinar: Cycling to Cut Carbon and Boost Communities Thursday 24 October, 12-1pm Matt Burke (DARe Hub, Newcastle University) will be joined by Prof James Woodcock (University of Cambridge) and guest speaker Jonah Morris (Sustrans). In this session, we will explore: 🚲 Increasing cycling as a form of zero-emission transportation 🚲 The benefits of greater cycling adoption for health and wellbeing 🚲 How the Propensity to Cycle Tool, developed by the University of Cambridge, can inform cycling investment Book your free place now ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e62exmhg #Decarbonisation #Resilience #Modelling #Cycling #Sustainability #NetZero
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The #DAReNationalHub and the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) have partnered to produce a report on 'Delivering a resilient transport network'. Looking at how we maintain and future proof our #highways, the report contains an overview of the impacts of extreme #weather on physical road infrastructure and a tool to guide practitioners in implementing ad hoc #adaptation pathways, with case studies showing successful physical interventions that can mitigate such impacts. With the UK awash with flood and weather warnings, and #transport networks disrupted all over the country, this report is aptly timed. The call to action in this report is an urgent one. The time to act is now. Read the report now 👉 https://lnkd.in/ePGuD2J8
President of the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) and Mott MacDonald Professor of Future Mobility at UWE Bristol
There are over 70,000 bridges as part of the UK road network, a network that totals about a quarter of a million miles of road. That's a lot of ageing infrastructure to look after in a resource constrained world increasingly battered by the effects of climate change. I'm pleased therefore that we (Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT)) have today published a new report on 'delivering a resilient transport network' (https://lnkd.in/edCKQZYX) in partnership with DARe National Hub. I was privileged to have a chance to speak at the launch event today. Here are some of the points I made: I'd like to say this is an important and timely report. But I'm not sure about 'timely' - what took the sector so long to wake up to the enormity of this issue? Judges are sending climate protesters to jail for disrupting transport networks but today we are awash with flood warnings (and other parts of the world are being battered) - that's serious disruption. We can't send water to jail (and we didn't send the Government to jail when it was twice found to be unlawful in terms of its Net Zero Strategy). The word that leaps out of the report is 'now' - the time to act is now. But how many times do we hear that phrase used? Only a few days ago Jim Skea said "It's too late to save Britain from overheating". The call to action in this report is an urgent one. Thoughts stirred for me by the report included: Scale - our asset base in the UK is huge so making our infrastructure more resilient is a major (resource intensive) undertaking. Hindsight - in a resource constrained world, why wasn't the shift between a focus on capacity enhancement and maintenance not happening 10 or 20 years ago? Ageing asset base - prospectively we can do better at how we design, build, monitor and maintain new assets, but it's what we've already got that really matters - it's ageing, and data about the assets is not always good. Investment - how big is the task ahead, and how much (human) resource is needed to rise to the challenge, and if we can't, what parts of the infrastructure can we afford to temporarily or permanently lose? Adaptation versus mitigation - raising roads above flood prone areas sounds like a carbon intensive solution to adaptation that will exacerbate mitigation - to what extent are these two at risk of coming into serious tension in investment terms? Data - we need data on the design of assets, their changing condition over time and on the environmental conditions affecting them. Our work is going to be cut out to have the data in the places and at the times we need it to support asset management decisions. Thanks to Professor Phil Blythe CBE FREng CEng FIET FCIHT and Neil Johnstone for their insights into the report today, and to Sara Zuin for her important background work. #resilience
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💡 An extremely productive meeting yesterday with DARe's Independent Advisory Board. Thank you to all IAB members who attended in-person and online, to discuss the DARe programme's progress, how to define and understand resilience, and how agent-based modelling can help to understand the impact of extreme weather events on transport systems. Thanks again to Dervilla Mitchell DBE for chairing, and to Arup for the opportunity to hear about its work and visit its ExperienceLab and SoundLab! 🎵 🎶
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📣 Missed our latest webinar? The recording of 'Leveraging Transport ABMs for Decarbonisation and Resilience', featuring guest speakers Dr Patrizia Franco from Connected Places Catapult and Joschka Bischoff from CFF, is now available. Head to our website to watch it and sign up for our next webinar ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/ePvwnatS #Decarbonisation #Transport #Resilience #ClimateChange #NetZero
Webinar - Leveraging Transport ABMs for Decarbonisation and Resilience - DARe
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There's still time to sign up for our webinar tomorrow! ⬇ https://lnkd.in/dYw5EhAq
🔔 Join Our Webinar: Leveraging Transport ABMs for Decarbonisation and Resilience - Weds 25th Sept (12 - 1 pm). David Alvarez (DARe Hub, Newcastle University) will be joined by Dr Patrizia Franco (Connected Places Catapult) and Dr Joschka Bischoff (SBB CFF FFS). This webinar will look into: - The advantages and limitations of using transport ABMs - Real-world scenarios applying mitigation measures and adaptation strategies - How these models can help tackle the current and future impacts of climate change on populations and transport systems. Click here to sign-up for free: https://lnkd.in/dYw5EhAq #Webinar #Decarbonisation #Resilience #TransportABMs #Modelling #AgentBasedModelling
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DARe National Hub reposted this
On the train home from the DARe National Hub in-person meeting in Cambridge. An intense but productive couple of days thinking about the pathways to a decarbonised and resilient transport system for the UK, with a lot of model flowcharts, data discussions, and thinking about future scenario storylines! It was great to be in Cambridge, and I'm very glad I made a last-minute decision to take my bike on the train. Whilst it's not exactly straightforward to book a bike on LNER, it was highly enjoyable to cycle around the city and up to the meeting venue, to enjoy the cycling infrastructure and see a vision of a UK city that is very close to the Netherlands in terms of cycling culture and mode share. It helps to bring future visions of decarbonised transport alive when you're meeting in a city where many people walk, cycle, or take electric buses to get around! Lots of people of all ages on bikes, cargo bikes, e-bikes, and e-scooters. Including Li Wan on his very nice Gazelle with trailer!