Read about the presentations and presenters below.
Award recipient (20-minute presentation)
Yukon Highways and Public Works: Yukon Highways Climate Risk Assessment and Action Plan
In partnership with Stantec
Yukon is warming much faster than southern Canada, and the impacts of climate change on transportation infrastructure are an urgent concern. To help it create more resilient, safe and reliable highways, the Territorial government undertook an assessment of climate change impacts and geohazards on 3,700 km of highways and secondary roads, 130 bridges and 7,100 drainage culverts. The geohazards considered were permafrost thawing, flooding, erosion, landslides, avalanches, wildfires, and overflow ice formation on highways. After the study team calculated future risks to infrastructure as a function of exposure, likelihood and consequence, they developed a comprehensive set of geohazard exposure maps, a climate risk profile for future decades, an action plan with 16 adaptation measures, and a prioritization framework. Notable project innovations included the integration of material flow methods, safe-to-fail design, and adaptation pathways for infrastructure decisions.
Presenters: Adam Luciano and Daniel Tse
Award finalists (10-minute presentations)
Alberta Transportation and Economic Corridors: High-RAP Asphalt Concrete Pavement Mixture Designs in the Context of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions
In partnership with NPA Ltd., a subsidiary of Colas Western Canada Inc.
Presenter: Arash Ghahremani
Sturgeon County, Alberta: Strengthening Road Resilience Against Climate Change
In partnership with Stratum Logics Inc. and Paradox Access Solutions Inc.
Presenter: Sanat Pokharel and Arghya Chatterjee
Dalhousie University: Climate Action Evaluation – Development of a Bottom-Up, Activity-Based Transport Network Emissions Modelling System
In partnership with University of British Columbia, McMaster University, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Halifax Regional Municipality, City of Moncton, City of Charlottetown, City of Calgary, and City of Lethbridge.
Presenter: Dr. Ahsan Habib
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