Accessibillity disruptions in urban areas caused by extreme rainfall events

Urban Water Management: Challenges and Oppurtunities - 11th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry, CCWI 2011

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Melo, Nuno ^a   Santos, Bruno F ^b   Leitão, João P ^c   Ramos, Helena ^d   Leandro, Jorge ^e  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF GUARDA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

^d INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Calibration models; Evacuation routes; Flood modelling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FACSIMILE; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; HIGHWAY BRIDGES; RAIN; RURAL AREAS; TRANSPORTATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ACCESSIBILITY; CALIBRATION MODEL; EMERGENCY PLANS; EVACUATION ROUTES; EXTREME RAINFALL; FLOOD MODELLING; RAINFALL EVENT; STORMWATER MANAGEMENT MODEL(SWMM);

RIVERS;

EID: 84906233680     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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