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Flood risk assessment of the European road network
Kees C. H. van Ginkel
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Inland Water Systems, Deltares, Delft, Boussinesqweg 1, 2629 HV Delft, the Netherlands
Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1111, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the
Netherlands
Francesco Dottori
Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy
Lorenzo Alfieri
Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy
CIMA Research Foundation, University Campus of Savona, Savona, Italy
Luc Feyen
Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy
Elco E. Koks
Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1111, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the
Netherlands
Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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This study presents a state-of-the-art approach to assess flood damage for each unique road segment in Europe. We find a mean total flood risk of EUR 230 million per year for all individual road segments combined. We identify flood hotspots in the Alps, along the Sava River, and on the Scandinavian Peninsula. To achieve this, we propose a new set of damage curves for roads and challenge the community to validate and improve these. Analysis of network effects can be easily added to our analysis.
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