Risk Assessment of Terrestrial Transportation Infrastructures Exposed to Extreme Events
Keeping transport links open in adverse conditions and being able to restore connections quickly after extreme events are important and demanding tasks for infrastructure owners/operators. This paper is developed within the H2020 project SAFEWAY, whose main goal is to increase the resilience of terr...
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| author | Unni Eidsvig Monica Santamaría Neryvaldo Galvão Nikola Tanasic Luca Piciullo Rade Hajdin Farrokh Nadim Hélder S. Sousa José Matos |
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| description | Keeping transport links open in adverse conditions and being able to restore connections quickly after extreme events are important and demanding tasks for infrastructure owners/operators. This paper is developed within the H2020 project SAFEWAY, whose main goal is to increase the resilience of terrestrial transportation infrastructure. Risk-based approaches are excellent tools to aid in the decision-making process of planning maintenance and implementation of risk mitigation measures with the ultimate goal of reducing risk and increasing resilience. This paper presents a framework for quantitative risk assessment which guides an integrated assessment of the risk components: hazard, exposure, vulnerability and consequences of a malfunctioning transportation infrastructure. The paper guides the identification of failure modes for transportation infrastructure exposed to extreme events (natural and human-made) and provides models for and examples of hazard, vulnerability and risk assessment. Each assessment step must be made in coherence with the other risk components as an integral part of the risk assessment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7db45fd540e4404797f34f13c9d85f7b2023-11-22T23:46:10ZengMDPI AGInfrastructures2412-38112021-11-0161116310.3390/infrastructures6110163Risk Assessment of Terrestrial Transportation Infrastructures Exposed to Extreme EventsUnni Eidsvig0Monica Santamaría1Neryvaldo Galvão2Nikola Tanasic3Luca Piciullo4Rade Hajdin5Farrokh Nadim6Hélder S. Sousa7José Matos8Natural Hazards Division, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), N-0806 Oslo, NorwayDepartment of Civil Engineering, Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE), University of Minho, 4800-058 Guimarães, PortugalDepartment of Civil Engineering, Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE), University of Minho, 4800-058 Guimarães, PortugalInfrastructure Management Consultants Gmbh (IMC), 8008 Zürich, SwitzerlandNatural Hazards Division, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), N-0806 Oslo, NorwayInfrastructure Management Consultants Gmbh (IMC), 8008 Zürich, SwitzerlandNatural Hazards Division, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), N-0806 Oslo, NorwayDepartment of Civil Engineering, Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE), University of Minho, 4800-058 Guimarães, PortugalDepartment of Civil Engineering, Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE), University of Minho, 4800-058 Guimarães, PortugalKeeping transport links open in adverse conditions and being able to restore connections quickly after extreme events are important and demanding tasks for infrastructure owners/operators. This paper is developed within the H2020 project SAFEWAY, whose main goal is to increase the resilience of terrestrial transportation infrastructure. Risk-based approaches are excellent tools to aid in the decision-making process of planning maintenance and implementation of risk mitigation measures with the ultimate goal of reducing risk and increasing resilience. This paper presents a framework for quantitative risk assessment which guides an integrated assessment of the risk components: hazard, exposure, vulnerability and consequences of a malfunctioning transportation infrastructure. The paper guides the identification of failure modes for transportation infrastructure exposed to extreme events (natural and human-made) and provides models for and examples of hazard, vulnerability and risk assessment. Each assessment step must be made in coherence with the other risk components as an integral part of the risk assessment.https://www.mdpi.com/2412-3811/6/11/163risk assessmentnatural hazardsextreme eventsterrestrial transportation infrastructuresvulnerabilityresilience |
| spellingShingle | Unni Eidsvig Monica Santamaría Neryvaldo Galvão Nikola Tanasic Luca Piciullo Rade Hajdin Farrokh Nadim Hélder S. Sousa José Matos Risk Assessment of Terrestrial Transportation Infrastructures Exposed to Extreme Events Infrastructures risk assessment natural hazards extreme events terrestrial transportation infrastructures vulnerability resilience |
| title | Risk Assessment of Terrestrial Transportation Infrastructures Exposed to Extreme Events |
| title_full | Risk Assessment of Terrestrial Transportation Infrastructures Exposed to Extreme Events |
| title_fullStr | Risk Assessment of Terrestrial Transportation Infrastructures Exposed to Extreme Events |
| title_full_unstemmed | Risk Assessment of Terrestrial Transportation Infrastructures Exposed to Extreme Events |
| title_short | Risk Assessment of Terrestrial Transportation Infrastructures Exposed to Extreme Events |
| title_sort | risk assessment of terrestrial transportation infrastructures exposed to extreme events |
| topic | risk assessment natural hazards extreme events terrestrial transportation infrastructures vulnerability resilience |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2412-3811/6/11/163 |
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