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Measures needed now to ensure transport adapts to climate change – DfT

by Deniz Huseyin
22 January 2026
 

Early investment in climate adaptation within the transport sector would reduce costs from weather-related damage and disruption as well as improving efficiency, states a new strategy document from the DfT.

This can be achieved through a range of measures to build greater resilience and reliability as well as achieving lower maintenance and repair costs, fewer compensation claims and less revenue lost, the department says.

The document sets out the actions that DfT and the transport sector are...

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