Transport

Costs to cities and local communities for snow and ice removal is extremely weather dependent, unpredictable and can fluctuate as much as up to 40% annually, and often creates excessive cost overruns.

Snow and ice create costly delays to train and air travel, in addition to the high cost of de-icing the vehicles and maintining clear raillines and airport tarmacs.

Example: Mountain railway (winter)
Example: Mountain railway (summer)
Example: Winterservice
Example: Passenger ferry

Industry Quotes

The likely increase in extreme weather events may cause flooding, particularly of underground rail systems and roads with inadequate drainage. Scientists estimate that the probability of extreme winter precipitation exceeding two standard deviations above normal would increase by a factor of five over parts of the UK and northern Europe, and found 10% increase in short duration (1 to 2 days) precipitation events across the UK.conditions. 
(IPCC, Europe Report 2007)

The weather is costing road clearing and gritting services 115 million. Lower Austria’s road clearing and gritting services are expecting total costs of 115 million Euros. Road salt consumption has risen by a third. Since the first snowfall the gritters have been on Lower Austria’s roads for 1.1 million hours. That is 25 percent more than in the winter of 2004/2005. Salzburg relief units in non-stop operations. Since 18th November there has also been continuous snow in the city of Salzburg and in Flachgau. The costs for winter services on federal and state roads alone have risen by 50 percent. 
(Austrian Broadcasting online, December 2006)