Transport Adaptation Policies in Europe: From Incremental Actions to Long-Term Visions

This research describes the current state of adaptation in the transport sector in Europe and explores their potential, lessons learnt and limits. The objective is to establish a typology of current approaches and assess their impact in terms of both, short term feasibility and long-term sustainability. As a result, some follow-up actions are suggested for policy making in terms of promoting better integrated consideration of mitigation and adaptation challenges, developing new technical tools and expertise to forecast potential climate change impacts, and expanding adaptation from the current operational focus to the planning and policy making fields