Impact of climate change on road performance: updating climate information for Australia

Climatic conditions play a significant role in the performance of road infrastructure. Models which have been developed to describe road performance can benefit from accurate knowledge of climatic trends. Without access to complete historical data, the road infrastructure/climatic interaction cannot be fully understood. As climate information is collected at weather stations located sporadically around Australia it is often an arduous and time consuming process to match pavement sections with their equivalent climates.