TY - GEN
T1 - Resilience Assessment of Transportation Networks to Climate Change Induced Flooding
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 - Over the past decades, the rate and intensities of natural hazards have increased significantly, attributed to the impacts of climate change. Simultaneously, the population living in urban areas has increased rapidly, converting cities into vibrant economic hubs. However, this rapid expansion led to ill-planned developments, which are expensive to maintain, let alone to enhance. The emergence of unprecedented challenges accompanied by climate change has paved the way for a resilience-oriented design approach. Resilience thinking focuses on reducing the impact and streamlining the recovery process. This paper aims to address the impacts of climate change on the transportation network through flooding. We conducted the study using a graph-theoretic approach based on betweenness centrality as a metric to assess several flooding scenarios. The results show extensive damage to the network in all scenarios, which is expected considering rain and storms unusual to the region in the records used as a reference during the development. This study highlights the need to re-evaluate stormwater management plans urgently and take all the necessary mitigation measures to improve the resilience of the Doha highways network, which is crucial for the FIFA World Cup 2022 which will be held during the winter season.
AB - Over the past decades, the rate and intensities of natural hazards have increased significantly, attributed to the impacts of climate change. Simultaneously, the population living in urban areas has increased rapidly, converting cities into vibrant economic hubs. However, this rapid expansion led to ill-planned developments, which are expensive to maintain, let alone to enhance. The emergence of unprecedented challenges accompanied by climate change has paved the way for a resilience-oriented design approach. Resilience thinking focuses on reducing the impact and streamlining the recovery process. This paper aims to address the impacts of climate change on the transportation network through flooding. We conducted the study using a graph-theoretic approach based on betweenness centrality as a metric to assess several flooding scenarios. The results show extensive damage to the network in all scenarios, which is expected considering rain and storms unusual to the region in the records used as a reference during the development. This study highlights the need to re-evaluate stormwater management plans urgently and take all the necessary mitigation measures to improve the resilience of the Doha highways network, which is crucial for the FIFA World Cup 2022 which will be held during the winter season.
KW - Climate change resilience
KW - Complex networks
KW - FIFA World Cup 2022
KW - Flooding hazard
KW - Geographic information System (GIS)
KW - Urban transportation resilience
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-99-4101-8_21
DO - 10.1007/978-981-99-4101-8_21
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85177847404
SN - 9789819941001
T3 - Environmental Science and Engineering
SP - 277
EP - 284
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 -
