The ARA is working with members to create a nationally consistent approach to climate resilience as the industry responds to the increasing impacts of extreme weather events. The resilience of the network has been identified as a key issue, with the potential for climate events to cause disruptions to rail services and impact supply chains.

The industry-first Resilience Framework will outline practical focus areas for rail organisations and help industry address this growing challenge in a consistent and coordinated way. The framework will look at how to ensure the resilience of the wide range of assets, systems and processes which make up the rail industry to ensure organisations can minimise the impacts of, respond to, and recover from climate events as quickly and efficiently as possible to keep the nation moving.

The ARA’s CEO Caroline Wilkie wrote a column this week in Rail Express about the importance of having a national resilience framework for the rail industry in Australia.