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Prof. William Powrie
University of Southampton
Title: Resilience, Sustainability and Affordability: the triple challenge for rail infrastructure: Synopsis
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Abstract: Climate change is already happening and there is a good understanding in qualitative terms of the impacts it is having and will have on our railway infrastructure. As a society we expect both our rail services and our railway infrastructure to be resilient. Current approaches to engineering resilience into our railway infrastructure are often costly in terms of both money and carbon, to an extent that increasingly makes new infrastructure and infrastructure enhancements unaffordable. Looked at another way, there is a danger of focusing on adaptation to the effects of climate change at the expense of mitigation, which is badly needed if the world is to avoid a climate catastrophe. The presentation will explore this challenge in the context of the likely impacts of climate change on railway infrastructure. It will suggest some steps that could help to achieve the desired resilience in a sustainable and affordable way, and a balance between the sometimes conflicting demands of adaptation for resilience and mitigation towards sustainability. |
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| Biography: William Powrie is Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Southampton. He is known for his research in environmental and transportation geotechnics, and the behaviour of “difficult” soils and soil-like materials. He is Convenor of the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities and leads the UK Rail Research and Innovation Network Infrastructure Centre of Excellence. He is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, chair of HS2’s Independent Geotechnical Expert Panel, member of the UK Department for Transport Science Advisory Council, Chair of the RAEng / Lloyd’s Register Foundation Engineering X programme, and Geotechnical Consultant to groundwater specialists WJ. | |
Abstract submission (1~2 page)
( 20 December 2023)
Notifying Abstract Acceptance
( 20 January 2024)
Full Paper Submission Due
( 30 April 2024)
Notifying Paper Acceptance
( 30 April 2024)
Final manuscript submission
( 30 May 2024)
Arrival
( 7 August 2024)
Conference Dates
( 7-9 August 2024)
Please send any inquiries to the Conference secretariats:
Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering of the Ministry of Education
Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, China
E-mail: icrt2024@vip.163.com
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