Integrating urban traffic models with coastal flood maps to quantify the resilience of traffic systems to episodic coastal flooding.

ABSTRACT: Sea level rise and coastal floods are disrupting coastal communities across the world. The impacts of coastal floods are magnified by the disruption of critical urban systems such as transportation. The flood-related closure of low-lying coastal roads and highways can increase travel time delays and accident risk. However, quantifying the flood-related disruption of the urban traffic system presents challenges. Traffic systems are complex and highly dynamic, where congestion resulting from road closures may propagate rapidly from one area to another. Prior studies identify flood-related road closures by spatially overlaying coastal flood maps onto road network models, but simplifications within the representation of the road network with respect to the coastline or creeks may lead to an in

SUBMITTER: Kasmalkar IG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8374724 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature