Enhancing Railway Infrastructure Assets Against Natural Hazards

The transportation system in Alpine countries plays a vital role in the European transit of passengers and freight from north to south and east to west. In addition, transportation lines are essential for the accessibility of lateral valleys and their economic welfare. In mountain areas, extreme weather events regularly trigger hazardous and torrential processes like different kinds of flooding, landslides or avalanches and their intermixtures. Their intensity will increase in the next years due to climate change. As the railway infrastructure presents a bottleneck function in the Alps, this case study will focus on enhancing the resilience of a transportation network in a multi-hazard context and on reducing adverse effects of natural hazards in the transportation infrastructure in Austria.

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  http://master.grad.hr/cetra/ocs/index.php/cetra4/cetra2016/paper/view/497
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  • Abstract reprinted with permission of University of Zagreb Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Transportation.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Zagreb

  Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Transportation
  Kačićeva 26
  Zagreb,   Croatia  1000
• Authors:
  • Aksentijevic, Elena
  • Schöbel, Andreas
  • Schönberger, Christine
• Conference:
  • 4th International Conference on Road and Rail Infrastructure – CETRA 2016
  • Location: Šibenik , Croatia
  • Date: 2016-5-23 to 2016-5-25
• Publication Date: 2016-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 583-588
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Road and Rail Infrastructure – CETRA 2016: Road and Rail Infrastructure IV
• Serial:
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Road and Rail Infrastructure CETRA
  • Publisher: University of Zagreb
  • ISSN: 1848-9850

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Flood damage; Hazards; Multiple criteria decision making; Railroads; Risk assessment; Risk management
• Geographic Terms: Austria
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01632723
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 27 2017 9:25AM