The future cost to the United Kingdom's railway network of heat-related delays and buckles caused by the predicted increase in high summer temperatures owing to climate change

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-34

  Dobney, K ^a   Baker, C J ^a   Chapman, L ^a   Quinn, A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buckle; Climate change; Delay minutes; Railway

Indexed keywords

BUCKLE; CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTION; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW EMISSION; RAILWAY NETWORK; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TOTAL COSTS; UNITED KINGDOM; WEATHER GENERATOR;

COSTS; RAILROADS; RAILS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 77950153980     PISSN: 09544097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544097JRRT292     Document Type: Article

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