Key results of the Swiss wide natural hazard risk assessment on national roads

Dorren, Luuk; Arnold, P. (2016). Key results of the Swiss wide natural hazard risk assessment on national roads In: 13th Congress Interpraevent 2016: Living with natural risks: conference proceedings (pp. 487-493). Klagenfurt: International Research Society Interpraevent

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Since 2008, the Federal roads office FEDRO is owner and manager of all national roads in Switzerland, which comprise the highways as well as most of the mountain passes of key importance. As a result, Swiss-wide, standardized information on natural hazards that threat-en national roads (highways) was not available. The FEDRO therefore decided to initiate a four year project aiming at quantifying and mapping all risks due to natural hazards threaten-ing Swiss national roads. This paper presents the methodology used in this project and presents a summary of the monetarised risks of the evaluated road sections. The natural hazards that are assessed are snow avalanches, rock- and icefall, flooding, debris flows, landslides (permanent, spontaneous and slope type debris flows) and collapse dolines. Risk hot spots mainly occur due to road closure related to rockfall or bank erosion. Damage to infrastructure represents generally only up to 20 % of the total calculated risk; person risks add up to 8 % of the total risk.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Division/Institute:	School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL > Multifunctional Forest Management
Name:	Dorren, Luuk0000-0001-9344-9461 and Arnold, P.
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences S Agriculture > SD Forestry
ISBN:	978-3-901164-24-8
Publisher:	International Research Society Interpraevent
Language:	English
Submitter:	Service Account
Date Deposited:	10 Mar 2020 14:22
Last Modified:	15 Dec 2021 21:45
ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.7421
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/7421