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Resilience of Underground Transportation Infrastructure in Coastal Regions: A Case Study
Infrastructure in coastal areas is vulnerable to extreme weather events such as storms, high tides, flooding, and severe precipitation. These could drastically affect transportation infrastructure, including underground structures, which would result in greater construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation costs. Global climate change, especially increased precipitation, increased temperature, and sea level rise will further exacerbate the problem. Of these risks, sea level rise is the most important for coastal regions in the long-term. The projections of sea level rise for the next eighty years show a range of 0.8 ft. to 6.5 ft. Furthermore, the risk of sea level rise coupled with storm surge will increase the vulnerability of coastal transportation infrastructure including bridges, roads, tunnels, ports, and harbors. This paper reports on an assessment of the resilience of a representative set of underground transportation assets to extreme stressors in coastal regions. Sea level rise and storm surge scenarios were evaluated and the condition of underground transportation systems was assessed in each scenario using a vulnerability assessment tool.
Resilience of Underground Transportation Infrastructure in Coastal Regions: A Case Study
Infrastructure in coastal areas is vulnerable to extreme weather events such as storms, high tides, flooding, and severe precipitation. These could drastically affect transportation infrastructure, including underground structures, which would result in greater construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation costs. Global climate change, especially increased precipitation, increased temperature, and sea level rise will further exacerbate the problem. Of these risks, sea level rise is the most important for coastal regions in the long-term. The projections of sea level rise for the next eighty years show a range of 0.8 ft. to 6.5 ft. Furthermore, the risk of sea level rise coupled with storm surge will increase the vulnerability of coastal transportation infrastructure including bridges, roads, tunnels, ports, and harbors. This paper reports on an assessment of the resilience of a representative set of underground transportation assets to extreme stressors in coastal regions. Sea level rise and storm surge scenarios were evaluated and the condition of underground transportation systems was assessed in each scenario using a vulnerability assessment tool.
Resilience of Underground Transportation Infrastructure in Coastal Regions: A Case Study
Martinez, Edwin (author) / Hernandez, Jose (author) / Rodriguez-Nikl, Tonatiuh (author) / Mazari, Mehran (author)
International Conference on Transportation and Development 2018 ; 2018 ; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2018-07-12
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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