Assessing and Mitigating Transportation Infrastructure Vulnerability to Coastal Storm Events with the Convergence of Advanced Spatial Analysis, Infrastructure Modeling, and Storm Surge Simulations

To protect the security of the public transportation infrastructure and the enormous amount of public assets, the proposed study intends to develop a decision support tool that can assist infrastructure stakeholders in making decisions at the day-to-day operation level (i.e. evacuation or shutting down of roads and bridges) to protect communities from impeding flooding events as well as in making long-term decisions in mitigating future flood risks facing their current infrastructure assets and their future projects (in particular those related to storm surge and extreme rainfall events). The expected outcome of this study is new software applications that are built for infrastructure resilience centered investigations. The software applications will be cloud-based which will allow infrastructure stakeholders such as DOT personnel, floodplain managers, and OEM coordinators to access and use it without any local installations on their computers.

• Record URL:
  https://cait.rutgers.edu/research/assessing-and-mitigating-transportation-infrastructure-vulnerability-to-coastal-storm-events-with-the-convergence-of-advanced-spatial-analysis-infrastructure-modeling-and-storm-surge-simulations/

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $80000
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551847102

  CAIT-UTC-REG34

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Emergency Management Coordinator Monmouth County Sheriff's Office

  2000 Kozloski Road
  Freehold, NJ  United States  07728

  Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation

  Rutgers University
  100 Brett Road
  Piscataway, NJ  United States  08854-8058
• Project Managers:

  Oppegaard, Michael

  Szary, Patrick

• Performing Organizations:

  Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation

  Rutgers University
  100 Brett Road
  Piscataway, NJ  United States  08854-8058
• Principal Investigators:

  Gong, Jie

• Start Date: 20200201
• Expected Completion Date: 20221231
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Coasts; Data analysis; Decision support systems; Disaster resilience; Floods; Infrastructure; Risk assessment; Simulation; Software; Spatial analysis; Storm surges
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01749477
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551847102, CAIT-UTC-REG34
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Aug 27 2020 9:25PM