by Fani Gelagoti

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A novel framework for the expedient assessment of flood risk to transportation networks focused on the response of the most critical and vulnerable infrastructure assets, the bridges, is developed, validated and applied. he framework is implemented for the analysis of flood risk in a case study area, considering an inventory of 117 bridges of diverse construction characteristics, which were affected by a major flood that impacted Greece in September 2020. The reliability of the method is validated against an extensive record of inspected and documented bridge damages. Regional scale analysis is facilitated by the adoption of the Multi-Criteria Decision-Making method for flood hazard indexing, considering geomorphological, meteorological, hydrological, and land use/cover data, based on the processing of remotely sensed imagery and openly available geospatial datasets in GIS.

DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157976

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