Brief communication: On direct impact probability  of landslides on vehicles

Nicolet, Pierrick; Jaboyedoff, Michel; Cloutier, Catherine; Crosta, Giovanni B.; Lévy, Sébastien

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-995-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-995-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-995-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 4

Brief communication

|

19 Apr 2016

Brief communication |

| 19 Apr 2016

Brief communication: On direct impact probability of landslides on vehicles

Pierrick Nicolet, Michel Jaboyedoff, Catherine Cloutier, Giovanni B. Crosta, and Sébastien Lévy

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C2846: 'Comment to 'Brief Communication of Nicolet et al.'', Michael Bründl, 28 Dec 2015
- AC C3255: 'Answers to Michael Bründl's comments', Pierrick Nicolet, 29 Feb 2016
RC C3221: 'general', Rainer Poisel, 12 Feb 2016
- AC C3259: 'Answers to Rainer Poisel's comments', Pierrick Nicolet, 01 Mar 2016

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When calculating the risk of railway or road users being killed by a natural hazard, one has to calculate a temporal spatial probability, i.e. the probability of a vehicle being in the path of the falling mass when the mass falls, or the expected number of hit vehicles in the case of an event. This paper discusses different methods used to calculate this probability, in particular regarding the consideration of the dimensions of the falling mass and of the vehicles.