Planning for effective initial response to emergency events
During, or immediately following an area-wide emergency event, such as flood, major storm or earthquake, the serviceability of bridges and large culverts within a network (especially on lifeline routes) is critical to facilitating recovery efforts and/or evacuation of the general public from heavily affected areas. With potentially large numbers of structures affected, the coordination and prioritisation of resources and immediate response inspections is critical to ascertaining the condition of structures and confirming serviceability. This paper explores the benefits of undertaking network wide risk screening of bridge stocks and how the outputs from such exercises, in conjunction with a comprehensive well maintained bridge information system, can be used by asset managers/engineers to rapidly identify at-risk structures and effectively programme their response in order to ensure the efficient use of (limited) resources. Experiences from the Darfield and Christchurch earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 are used to highlight key aspects of effective emergency response and recovery efforts.
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Authors:
- Rooke, A
- Kotze, R
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 2012-11
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 9p
- Monograph Title: A comparison of bore sounding, global stiffness and through compression wave non-destructive testing of Australian hardwood timber bridges
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Asset management; Bridge management systems; Bridges; Disasters; Emergencies; Risk assessment; Seismicity
- Geographic Terms: Australia; New Zealand
- ATRI Terms: Asset management; Bridge management; Disaster management; Emergency; Seismic disturbance
- ITRD Terms: 2184: Emergency; 5731: Seismic
- Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; I61: Equipment and Maintenance Methods;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01472858
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- Files: ITRD, ATRI
- Created Date: Feb 19 2013 10:15AM