Transport infrastructure is exposed to natural hazards all around the world. Here we present the first global estimates of multi-hazard exposure and risk to road and rail infrastructure. Results reveal that ~27% of all global road and railway assets are exposed to at least one hazard and ~7.5% of all assets are exposed to a 1/100 year flood event. Global Expected Annual Damages (EAD) due to direct damage to road and railway assets range from 3.1 to 22 billion US dollars, of which ~73% is caused by surface and river flooding. Global EAD are small relative to global GDP (~0.02%). However, in some countries EAD reach 0.5 to 1% of GDP annually, which is the same order of magnitude as national transport infrastructure budgets. A cost-benefit analysis suggests that increasing flood protection would have positive returns on ~60% of roads exposed to a 1/100 year flood event.
KOKS Elco;
ROZENBERG Julie;
ZORN Conrad;
TARIVERDI Mersedeh;
VOUSDOUKAS Michail;
FRASER Stuart Alexander;
HALL Jim;
HALLEGATTE Stephane;
2019-07-05
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
JRC115700
2041-1723 (online),
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10442-3,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC115700,
10.1038/s41467-019-10442-3 (online),
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