When floods hit the road: Resilience to flood-related traffic disruption in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.

ABSTRACT: As sea level rises, urban traffic networks in low-lying coastal areas face increasing risks of flood disruptions. Closure of flooded roads causes employee absences and delays, creating cascading impacts to communities. We integrate a traffic model with flood maps that represent potential combinations of storm surges, tides, seasonal cycles, interannual anomalies driven by large-scale climate variability such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation, and sea level rise. When identifying inundated roads, we propose corrections for potential biases arising from model integration. Our results for the San Francisco Bay Area show that employee absences are limited to the homes and workplaces within the areas of inundation, while delays propagate far inland. Communities with limited availability of al

SUBMITTER: Kasmalkar IG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7406370 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature