Is Europe's Transportation Network ready to face Climate Change?

Climate change impacts are evident across a wide range of society sectors. Extreme events like floods, heatwaves, and storms pose a significant threat to the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), resulting in infrastructure damage, economic losses, and health issues for the population. Future projections indicate an elevated risk of coastal flooding for seaports and ports, along with heightened exposure of railways and roads to extreme temperatures. This escalating risk underscores the imperative for implementing effective adaptation measures to enhance the resilience of the entire transport network. Our analysis focuses on assessing the vulnerability of all modes within the European Core Network (airports, seaports, railways, roads, inland water) to climate-related extreme events. We examine the specific challenges and impacts on each transport mode, while also investigating the increasing exposure across different Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) scenarios.