Urban Mobility Adaptation To Climate Change
The policy brief aims to raise awareness among policymakers and provide urban
planners with an overview of what will be the impact of climate change on
Mediterranean cities with a particular focus on mobility issues.
So far, the focus on the transport sector had to do mostly with decarbonising it
and making mobility more sustainable. Even though climate change mitigation
is generally seen as the priority strategy for preventing or at least minimizing
the impact of climate change, we must nevertheless be aware that its effects are
already impacting our everyday life. Consequently, urban planners should be
aware of this evolution and include adaptation measures in their mobility plans.
Furthermore, transport infrastructures will be exposed, in the next decades, to an
increasing number of new challenges from climate impacts, which are only partly
already visible. Planning today for the construction of new and the management
of existing infrastructures will require the consideration of new environmental,
climatic and socio-economic parameters and conditions with respect to those
used in the past.
The present policy brief describes the main impacts of climate change on
urban mobility and suggests possible solutions to minimise its impacts.
The work is based on a review of existing literature on the topic and on the
feedback provided by experts in different fields: mobility planning, urban
planning, climate change, economics and environmental health. The experts
were interviewed and, in a later stage, they took part in a series of workshops
organized by the Urban Transport project. They thus had the opportunity to
interact, share their knowledge and explore the issue of urban mobility adapting
to climate change from different perspectives.
