TY - GEN
T1 - Public Transportation Resilience Towards Climate Change Impacts
T2 - 7th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development, ACESD 2022
AU - Serdar, Mohammad Zaher
AU - Al-Ghamdi, Sami G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2023.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Since the mid of the past century, accelerated urbanization and rapid city expansion have driven the development of extensive public transportation networks to facilitate mobility throughout cities. However, these developments disregarded climate change’s threat, which gained momentum in recent decades with the unusual rate of extreme disasters. These unprecedented challenges motivated the thinking about preparing these networks and ensuring their resilience. This paper highlights the impacts of climate change on flooding hazards and the resulting damage to the Doha metro network. We applied a complex network approach to assess the resilience of the network under different scenarios. The results show no damage suffered under the base case; however, several stations and sections of the network are impacted under climate change scenarios. Thus, as the impacts of climate change are becoming more evident, it is critical to revisit development plans and precautions to reinforce or redesign critical infrastructures to avoid catastrophic events and substantial economic losses. Therefore, this study promotes the efforts to prepare cities for the impacts of climate change and support the development of resilient critical infrastructures to ensure the prosperity of its inhabitants, as in the case of Doha and the preparation for the FIFA World Cup 2022.
AB - Since the mid of the past century, accelerated urbanization and rapid city expansion have driven the development of extensive public transportation networks to facilitate mobility throughout cities. However, these developments disregarded climate change’s threat, which gained momentum in recent decades with the unusual rate of extreme disasters. These unprecedented challenges motivated the thinking about preparing these networks and ensuring their resilience. This paper highlights the impacts of climate change on flooding hazards and the resulting damage to the Doha metro network. We applied a complex network approach to assess the resilience of the network under different scenarios. The results show no damage suffered under the base case; however, several stations and sections of the network are impacted under climate change scenarios. Thus, as the impacts of climate change are becoming more evident, it is critical to revisit development plans and precautions to reinforce or redesign critical infrastructures to avoid catastrophic events and substantial economic losses. Therefore, this study promotes the efforts to prepare cities for the impacts of climate change and support the development of resilient critical infrastructures to ensure the prosperity of its inhabitants, as in the case of Doha and the preparation for the FIFA World Cup 2022.
KW - Climate change resilience
KW - Doha metro network
KW - FIFA World Cup 2022
KW - Flooding hazard
KW - Geographic Information System (GIS)
KW - Public transportation resilience
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-99-4101-8_23
DO - 10.1007/978-981-99-4101-8_23
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85177830890
SN - 9789819941001
T3 - Environmental Science and Engineering
SP - 297
EP - 305
BT - Environment and Sustainable Development - Proceedings of the 2022 7th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development
A2 - Ujikawa, Keiji
A2 - Ishiwatari, Mikio
A2 - Hullebusch, Eric van
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 4 November 2022 through 6 November 2022
ER -