Climate-Resilient Transport Infrastructure: Risk Assessment, Adaptation, and Resilient Mobility Systems

Climate change is reshaping the risks faced by transport infrastructure, with flooding, sea-level rise, extreme heat, wildfires, erosion, and storms increasingly threatening roads, railways, airports, ports, and associated mobility systems. Many assets continue to be designed and managed using historical climate baselines that do not adequately represent current or projected hazards. Rapid urbanization, infrastructure interdependence, and growing mobility demand further amplify the consequences of asset failure, including disrupted connectivity, economic losses, unequal access, and cascading impacts across communities and supply chains. Recent advances in geographic information systems, remote sensing, Earth observation, machine learning, and geospatial artificial intelligence have improved the spatial and temporal resolution of climate-risk assessment. However, evidence remains fragmented across disciplines and regions, and important gaps persist in translating hazard and vulnerability assessments into network-level resilience strategies, investment priorities, and equitable adaptation pathways. Further investigation is needed to connect physical risk modeling with planning, economic, governance, and operational decisions.This Research Topic aims to consolidate methodological and applied advances in the assessment, modeling, design, and planning of climate-resilient transport infrastructure and mobility systems. It will examine how transport planners, engineers, policymakers, and infrastructure managers can move from reactive damage assessment toward proactive, geospatially informed resilience planning. Contributions may address how multi-hazard susceptibility and vulnerability can be evaluated across individual assets and interconnected networks; how climate projections and uncertainty can be incorporated into infrastructure decisions; and how adaptation measures can be prioritized using economic, social, and environmental criteria. The Research Topic also seeks to assess whether resilience investments improve connectivity and service continuity for vulnerable populations, and how climate risk can be integrated into shared, electric, automated, and other emerging mobility systems.To gather further insights into climate-risk assessment and adaptation for transport assets and networks, this Research Topic will focus on roads, railways, airports, ports, and related mobility systems, while welcoming transferable approaches and comparative studies from climate-exposed regions worldwide. Contributions may address, but are not limited to, the following themes:• Flood, sea-level rise, heat, wildfire, erosion, storm, and multi-hazard susceptibility mapping for transport networks• Climate vulnerability and exposure assessment of roads, railways, airports, ports, and intermodal infrastructure• Geospatial artificial intelligence, remote sensing, and open Earth observation for infrastructure monitoring• Climate projections, uncertainty analysis, and scenario-based risk modeling• Network-level resilience, connectivity, accessibility, and cascading-failure analysis• Economic evaluation, cost-benefit analysis, and prioritization of climate adaptation measures• Resilient design, maintenance, retrofitting, and asset-management frameworks• Climate-adaptive planning for shared, electric, connected, and autonomous mobility systems• Equity, environmental justice, and accessibility in resilient transport planning• Policy, governance, finance, and institutional coordination for climate-adaptive investment• Transferable methodologies and comparative case studies from North America, the Middle East, the Far East, North Africa, and other climate-exposed regionsWe welcome Original Research, Review, Perspective, and Case Report articles, particularly those presenting transferable methodologies or comparative regional case studies. Topic editors: Dr. Walid Al-Shaar, Ghaleb Faour Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/85778/climate-resilient-transport-infrastructure-risk-assessment-adaptation-and-resilient-mobility-systems