How climate change affects different modes of transport – from roads to railways

ET Tisomboon/Shutterstock As climate change makes extreme weather more frequent and intense, floods, heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and storms are increasingly disrupting the roads, railways, airports and waterways. Roads have been closed in Germany during this summer’s heatwaves, for example, while travel has been chaotic on railways in the UK. But climate change does not affect every form of transport in the same way. Floods can wash away roads or inundate subway lines, heatwaves can bend…