Human vulnerability to landslides

W Pollock, J Wartman - GeoHealth, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Landslides pose a devastating threat to human health, killing thousands of people annually.
Human vulnerability is a crucial element of landslide risk reduction, yet up until now, all …

An expert judgement approach to determining the physical vulnerability of roads to debris flow

MG Winter, JT Smith, S Fotopoulou, K Pitilakis… - Bulletin of Engineering …, 2014 - Springer
The physical vulnerability of roads to debris flow may be expressed through fragility
functions that relate flow volume to damage probabilities. Fragility relationships are essential …

Fragility functions of highway and railway infrastructure

S Argyroudis, AM Kaynia - SYNER-G: Typology definition and fragility …, 2013 - Springer
The experience of past earthquakes has revealed that highway and railway elements are
quite vulnerable to earthquake shaking and induced phenomena such as soil liquefaction or …

Fragility curves for rainfall-induced shallow landslides on transport networks

K Martinović, C Reale, K Gavin - Canadian Geotechnical …, 2018 - cdnsciencepub.com
Many of the earthworks assets on rail transport networks were constructed in the 1800s and
have thus operated for periods far in excess of their expected service life. Incidences of …

Risk-Optimal and Equitable Retrofitting Strategy Using a Siamese Graph Neural Network for Earthquake-Induced Landslide Hazards

S Malama, D Jana, S Narasimhan… - Journal of Computing in …, 2025 - ascelibrary.org
Landslides pose a severe threat to road networks, particularly in hilly terrains, often
exacerbated by triggering events such as earthquakes. Hence, it is crucial to …

Multilayer-exposure maps as a basis for a regional vulnerability assessment for landslides: applied in Waidhofen/Ybbs, Austria

C Promper, T Glade - Natural Hazards, 2016 - Springer
Assessments of natural hazards and risks are beneficial for sustainable planning and
natural hazard risk management. On a regional scale, quantitative hazard and risk …

Bayesian networks for the multi-risk assessment of road infrastructure

P Gehl - 2017 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
The purpose of this study is to develop a methodological framework for the multi-risk
assessment of road infrastructure systems. Since the network performance is directly linked …

The Felbertauern landslide of 2013 in Austria: impact on transport networks, regional economy and policy decisions

C Pfurtscheller, E Genovese - Case studies on transport policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Felbertauern landslide of May 2013 caused the total destruction of
approximately 100 m of road including an avalanche gallery, generating traffic disruption …

[PDF][PDF] The Felbertauern landslide of 2013: impact on transport networks, effects on regional economy and policy decisions

C Pfurtscheller, E Genovese - SEEDS Working Paper, 2018 - sustainability-seeds.org
Abstract The Felbertauern landslide of May 2013 caused the total destruction of
approximately 100 meters of road including an avalanche gallery, generating traffic …

[PDF][PDF] Risk assessment for an Italian road network due to an extreme earthquake hazard scenario and the associated landslide cascading effects

J Clarke, JC Lam, P Gehl, K Taalab… - Proceedings of the Civil …, 2016 - researchgate.net
Natural hazards, such as earthquakes, have the potential to cause damage to transport
infrastructure networks and can lead to significant network disruption and associated losses …