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Large-scale application of the flood damage model RAilway Infrastructure Loss (RAIL) [1]

Experience has shown that river floods can significantly hamper the reliability of railway networks and cause extensive structural damage and disruption. As a result, the national railway operator in Austria had to cope with financial losses of more than EUR 100 million due to flooding in recent years. Comprehensive information on potential flood risk hot spots as well as on expected flood damage in Austria is therefore needed for strategic flood risk management. In view of this, the flood damage model RAIL (RAilway Infrastructure Loss) was applied to estimate (1) the expected structural flood damage and (2) the resulting repair costs of railway infrastructure due to a 30-, 100- and 300-year flood in the Austrian Mur River catchment.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
10/11/2016
Patric Kellermann [3], Christine Schönberger [4], Annegret H. Thieken [5]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences [6]
16
2357-2371
Tags:
Rail Transport [7], Floods [8], Natural Disasters [9], Rivers [10], Austria [11], Infrastructure Development [12]
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[2] http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/16/2357/2016/
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/patric-kellermann
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/christine-sch%C3%B6nberger
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/annegret-h-thieken
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/natural-hazards-and-earth-system-sciences
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rail-transport
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/floods
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/natural-disasters
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rivers
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/austria
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/infrastructure-development