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Climate change is a topic of global importance and has differing impacts on different sectors. In this study, we concentrate on the inter-relationship between climate change and transportation infrastructure, the climatic factors impacting the infrastructure and the impacts as a result of these factors in the Global South. The Global South is the developing world and due to the unequal impacts of climate change, the most vulnerable countries to climate change belong to the Global South. The transport infrastructure includes all the transport sectors namely Roadways, Railways, Airways and Seaways & waterways. Thus, transport infrastructure in the region is at high climate risks and requires climate risk & vulnerability analysis based on IPCC Framework for different types of transport sectors and their related impacts. This helps in identifying different adaptation strategies that can be used in each transport sector to be more climate resilient and adaptive to the future climate changes. The study further extends to understand the policies that are currently in use in different parts of the world and that can be modified to be used in the Global South in order to increase the adaptive capacity. The paper highlights the current best practices as well as the way forward with in-coming changes in the way we transport in the future. It gives a framework to discuss the changes in the climate adaptation policies in the Global South as compared with the Global North. It also provides an expert survey format to discuss & review the different types of practices and policies since adaptation is highly variable from region to region and sector to sector. The paper concludes with differences in policies in the Global South vs North i.e. the developed world & suggests changes that will be required to increase climate resilience in the developing world.
Key words: Climate, transport, infrastructure, adaptation, pavement.
