RAIN-EX

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Risk-Based Approach for the Protection of Land Transport
Infrastructure against Extreme Rainfall

What is RAIN-EX?

The main objective of the project RAIN-EX is to ensure the availability of transport infrastructure with regards to natural hazards, especially extreme rainfall, through a risk-based design of the former.

Conception

Currently, the protection of land transport infrastructure is based on deterministic views on the development fo extreme weather events in the future (HQ100, HQ1000, etc.). As the flooding events in Central and Eastern Europe in 2013 have shown, these aproaches do not address the real situation in a comprehensive manner. Today, the design of infrastructure against flooding is independent of the criticality of these infrastructures. Hence, there is no risk-based approach, but rather a general assessment. The risk of specific infrastructures is not considered.

Hence, there is an apparent need for a methodology which allows for the identification of critical infrastructures with regards to flooding events, taking risk management into account. The question which will be adressed are:

  • Which are the critical infrastructures?
  • How can they be identified?

The results of this development will cummulate into a risk-based approach for the assessment of the design of infrastructures along a river system and the development of a decision support tool for owners and operators of these infrastructures.

Expected results

  • Handbook
  • Website
  • Workshops with owners / operators
  • Sensitizing owners / operators for a risk-based approach

RAINEX Handbook

25/01/2017 |

Please feel free to download and read the RAINEX Handbook. English version: PDF (3 MB) German version: PDF (3 MB) Greek version: PDF (3 MB) French version: PDF (3 MB)   The digital annex can be downloaded here: ZIP (3 MB)

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Work Package 5 report

19/12/2016 |

The following report summarizes the results of Work Package 5 – Demonstration of the EU CIPS project RAINEX. The WP5 report can be downloaded under the following Link: PDF (16 MB)

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Work Package 4 report

19/12/2016 |

The following report summarizes the results of Work Package 4 – Risk Assessment of the EU CIPS project RAINEX. The WP4 report can be downloaded under the following Link: PDF (16 MB)

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