Planning RESilient Collective mobility under extreme weather: Users, INfrastructure, and Governance (RESCUING)
Given their importance for everyday mobility and long-term sustainable development, resilient collective mobility systems are of utmost importance. However, like other parts of society, these systems are threatened by climate change and extreme weather.
The purpose of the research project RESCUING is to promote new, interdisciplinary knowledge that can contribute to effective planning and mitigation of climate-related disruptions and interruptions in collective mobility settings at local and regional scales. The project brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers from VTI, Lund University and Linköping University, who will analyse vulnerabilities and risks in current collective mobility systems; identify capacity for rerouting and rescheduling traffic; study how resilience and risk management are organised and governed; understand user perspectives in managing extreme weather events; and synthesise, summarise and disseminate results to both academic and non-academic audiences.
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