Best-practice guidelines for adaptation of roads to climate

There has always been a close relationship between climate and road infrastructure; however, the accelerated changes that have happened recently mean that the historical climate data used to date are not sufficient for an adequate management of the current infrastructure. If the planning and design of roads are still carried out only in accordance with the usual engineering practices and with the existing historical data, they will probably not be able to respond to the climatic events of recent years and that, predictably, will continue in the future. The Best Practices Guidelines for the Adaptation of Highways to Climate, published by CAF - development bank of Latin America, aims to generate knowledge about the importance of defining infrastructures adapted to the climate throughout their life cycle, as well as to show examples, actions and measures of good practices that could be useful to apply to highway projects. © 2019 Asociacion Espanola de la Carretera. All rights reserved.