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Environmental Risks to Infrastructure Innovation Programme

Piloting a real-time surface water flood risk mapping service within ResilienceDirect to support local emergency decision-making

CIRIA Ref:

NERC Ref:

Start Date:

37

NE/N013050/1

01/01/2016

Case Study:

Call Year:

End Date:

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2015

31/10/2017

Research Institution:

Loughborough University

Principle Investigator:

Dr Dapeng Yu

CO Investigator(s):

Robert Wilby

Industry Partners:

Atkins Global, Cabinet Office, Department for Communities and Local Government, Environment Agency, Leicester City Council, Leicester Resilience Forum, Met Office, Transport Scotland

Hazards

Inland flooding

The aim of this innovation project was to: 1) Identify, understand and quantify surface water flood risks to the infrastructure system pertinent to emergency response in real time in Leicester City; 2) Establish real time forecasting of surface water flooding for selected surface flooding hotspots identified by the emergency responders within Leicester City; 3) Pilot test real time surface water flood risk mapping within ResilienceDirect.

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