Impact forecasting to support emergency management of natural hazards

B Merz, C Kuhlicke, M Kunz, M Pittore… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Forecasting and early warning systems are important investments to protect lives, properties,
and livelihood. While early warning systems are frequently used to predict the magnitude …

An overview of flood-induced transport disruptions on urban streets and roads in Chinese megacities: Lessons and future agendas

X Lu, FKS Chan, WQ Chen, HK Chan, X Gu - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban road transport disruptions caused by urban floods have become severe in the
Chinese megacities due to climate change and urbanisation. Urban road planning, design …

Emergency response process for sudden rainstorm and flooding: Scenario deduction and Bayesian network analysis using evidence theory and knowledge meta …

X Xie, L Huang, SM Marson, G Wei - Natural Hazards, 2023 - Springer
The traditional" forecast-response" paradigm is facing significant practical challenges. For
example, when different scenarios require different reaction mechanisms, the applicability of …

Toward street‐level nowcasting of flash floods impacts based on HPC hydrodynamic modeling at the watershed scale and high‐resolution weather radar data

P Costabile, C Costanzo, J Kalogiros… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In our era, the rapid increase of parallel programming coupled with high‐performance
computing (HPC) facilities allows for the use of two‐dimensional shallow water equation (2D …

Assessment of transportation system disruption and accessibility to critical amenities during flooding: Iowa case study

Y Alabbad, J Mount, AM Campbell, I Demir - Science of the total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Natural disasters, such as flooding, can cause severe social, environmental, and economic
damage to a community. Transportation infrastructure plays an essential role in flood …

Assessment of the vulnerability of road networks to urban waterlogging based on a coupled hydrodynamic model

M Zhang, M Xu, Z Wang, C Lai - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Waterlogging events in urban areas are becoming increasingly more frequent, which has
led to tremendous economic losses. Urban road networks have also suffered heavy …

[HTML][HTML] Preparedness against mobility disruption by floods

C Arrighi, M Pregnolato, RJ Dawson… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Civil responders currently have limited information available to them to support flood
incident planning. A new generation of tools are emerging that produce more detailed …

[HTML][HTML] Flood impacts on urban transit and accessibility—A case study of Kinshasa

Y He, S Thies, P Avner, J Rentschler - Transportation research part D …, 2021 - Elsevier
Transportation networks underpin socioeconomic development by enabling the movement
of goods and people. However, despite their frequency, little is known about how floods …

Current overview of impact analysis and risk assessment of urban pluvial flood on road traffic

H He, R Li, J Pei, JP Bilodeau, G Huang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
In the past decade, urban pluvial flood-induced impacts on road traffic have been studied in
the context of global climate change and rapid urbanization. The main objective of this paper …

Urban inundation response to rainstorm patterns with a coupled hydrodynamic model: A case study in Haidian Island, China

W Chen, G Huang, H Zhang, W Wang - Journal of Hydrology, 2018 - Elsevier
With rapid urbanization, rainstorm-induced inundation losses are becoming increasingly
severe. Research on urban inundation response to rainstorm patterns can help engineers …