Road Infrastructure Resilience to Debris Flow
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Debris flow, Road, Risk, ResilienceAbstract
The provision of safe, reliable and resilient transport networks is a fundamental requirement placed by society on those responsible for our transport systems. Resilience can be viewed at a number of levels ranging from assets, through links, nodes, and routes, to the networks and systems; each must be resilient in order to achieve the goal of a resilient networks and mobility. In this extended abstract a personal view of resilience as it relates to road networks is given. Two case studies are presented to illustrate the potential challenges of both asset redundancy (or diversion) and recovery, the latter in terms of potentially complex governance. The presentation will extend this view to cover the all-important impacts of climate change.
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