Documentation of flood damage on railway infrastructure - Lakeside ...

Introduction
Focus on <strong>flood</strong> <strong>damage</strong> documentation
Aims:
Generation and improvement <strong>of</strong> data availability on the long term
Development <strong>of</strong> a consistent, standardized <strong>flood</strong> <strong>damage</strong>
documentation scheme as part <strong>of</strong> a modern risk management for
railway infrastructure
Derivation <strong>of</strong> a foundation for <strong>damage</strong>-loss-functions
Work steps:
Close examination <strong>of</strong> rail infrastructure data. Identification <strong>of</strong> most
important elements in regard to assets and operational relevance
Definition <strong>of</strong> object classes and <strong>damage</strong> classes
Application to the 2006 <strong>flood</strong> event
Elaboration <strong>of</strong> a standardized catalogue for <strong>damage</strong> documentation
Lakeside Conference 2010