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Are roads and highways the Achilles Heel of Brazil?
Also available in: Português Photo: Ricardo Giaviti/Flickr Over the past three years and a half, our team has been working on a transport project with the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The project...
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Preparing transport for an uncertain climate future: I don’t have a crystal...
Photo: Alex Wynter/Flickr In 2015, severe floods washed away a series of bridges in Mozambique’s Nampula province, leaving several small villages completely isolated. Breslau, a local engineer and one...
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Climate is changing… So the way we manage roads needs to change as well
Photo: Christopher R. Bennett/World Bank Few things are more depressing than seeing the damage caused by cyclones on transport infrastructure. Especially when it is a causeway that was only formally...
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The road to resilience: sharing technical knowledge on transport across borders
Photo: Sinkdd/Flickr For many countries, damages and losses related to transport are a significant proportion of the economic impacts of disasters, often more than destruction to housing and...
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Climate and disaster risk in transport: No data? No problem!
Photo: Beccacantpark/Flickr Development professionals often complain about the absence of good-quality data in disaster-prone areas, which limits their ability to inform projects through quantitative...
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What El Niño has taught us about infrastructure resilience
Also available in: Español Photo: Ministerio de Defensa del Perú/Flickr The rains in northern Peru have been 10 times stronger than usual this year, leading to floods, landslides and a declaration of a...
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How to protect metro systems against natural hazards? Countries look to Japan...
Photo: Evan Blaser/Flickr The concentration of population in cities and their exposure to seismic hazards constitute one of the greatest disaster risks facing Peru and Ecuador. In 2007, a magnitude...
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Resilient transport investments: a climate imperative for Small Island...
This blog post was co-authored by Franz Drees-Gross, Director, Transport and ICT Global Practice, and Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Senior Director, Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice. Transport...
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Africa is paving the way to a climate-resilient future
Since the presentation of the World Bank’s first Africa Climate Business Plan at the COP 21 in Paris in 2015 and the Transport Chapter in Marrakech in 2016, a lot of progress has been made on...
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Maximizing finance for safe and resilient roads
Around the world, roads remain the dominant mode of transport and are among the most heavily-used types of infrastructure, accounting for about 80% of the distance travelled for individuals and 50%...
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Thank goodness, we had an extra bridge in stock!
Credit: Joshua Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory On October 4, 2016, category 4 Hurricane Matthew struck the southern part of Haiti. Strong winds and rain triggered heavy flooding and landslides that...
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Addressing the risks from climate change in performance-based contracts
Output and performance based road contracts (OPRC) is a contracting modality that is increasingly being used to help manage roads. Unlike traditional contracts, where the owners define what is to be...
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Transport and climate change: Putting Argentina’s resilience to the test
Also available in: Spanish Would you imagine having to evacuate your village by boat because the only road that takes you to your school and brings the goods is flooded? In February 2018, the fiction...
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In data-scarce environments, disruptive thinking is needed: Freetown...
When our team started working in Freetown one year ago, we found very limited data on how people move or what are the public transport options to access jobs and services from different neighborhoods....
View ArticleThe road to recovery: Rebuilding the transport sector after a disaster
Transport and disaster recovery In the Paradise, California fires of November 2018, a range of factors coalesced leaving 86 people dead and over 13,900 homes destroyed. Fueling the fires were...
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