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Infrastructure resilience and extreme weather events in Rwanda (and beyond)

Project Active from to Sustainable Growth and Cities

This project measures the relationship between actual extreme weather events and real-time road disruptions, exploring how road characteristics affect this relationship. The project aims to assess the resilience of transportation infrastructure to extreme weather events by mapping their effects on travel times and the cost of transporting goods, starting with Rwanda. 

Researchers

Gilles Duranton

Professor of Real Estate, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Adam Storeygard

Professor of Economics, Tufts University

Victor Couture

Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Prottoy Akbar

Assistant Professor in Economics of Transportation, Aalto University

Alejandro Molnar

Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank

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Regions
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