Summary
Roughan & O’Donovan Innovative Solutions (ROD-IS) co-ordinated this EU-FP7 funded project aimed at establishing the resilience of European road and rail infrastructure networks to extreme, low probability, natural hazard events.
Solution
We developed practical software tools and benchmark guidelines to enable European infrastructure managers to:
- Assess the probability of occurrence of extreme rare events
- Establish the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to extreme rare events
- Develop robust mitigation and response strategies
Challenge
In developing our stress test framework, we needed to consider not only individual hazards that pose a risk to specific infrastructure systems but also the coupled interdependencies of:
- Critical infrastructure
- Climate change
- Cascading hazards
- Cascading effects
- Time dependent vulnerability
Services provided:
- Risk-based asset management
- Data analysis