Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):
U. Drabek, Th. Nester, R. Kirnbauer:
"Off-line flood warning concept for railways";
Talk: FloodRisk 2008 Conference,
Oxford, UK;
2008-09-29
- 2008-10-02; in: "Flood Risk Management. Research and Practice",
Taylor & Francis Group,
London
(2008),
ISBN: 978-0-415-48507-4;
1255
- 1262.
English abstract:
Many railway lines in alpine regions follow the course of rivers which is often the most economic and reasonable design of railway lines. In the last years, a series of flood events caused the Austrian national railway operator ÖBB to temporarily close down several tracks. The ÖBB decided to commission a project to ¨ develop an off-line warning system with an expected lead time in the range of 2 to 4 hours. This paper presents the guidelines for setting up this warning system mainly consisting of combining existing operational forecasts for some gauges with an event-catalogue and a warning scheme for critical points between forecasting nodes.
Related Projects:
Project Head Robert Kirnbauer:
Hochwasser-Warnsystem ÖBB
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