Climate Change Impact on the Pavement Maintenance and Rehabilitation Costs associated with the Australian National Highway Network
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Austroads and the Federal Department of Transport and Regional Services (DOTARS) engaged CSIRO, the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB) Transport Research, the Monash University Centre for Population and Urban Research and the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) to undertake a project to examine likely future climate change and population scenarios for the whole of Australia during the 21 Century, with the aim of investigating the effects on major road infrastructure, as represented by the Australian National Highway network. The project and final report titled “Impact of Climate Change on Road Infrastructure” (Austroads, 2004) was coordinated by the Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics (BTRE).
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