Civil Engineering

Analysis of Evacuation Options considering Citizen Mobility Patterns and Disaster Vulnerability in a Himalayan Region Transportation Network

The Indo-Himalayan region is vulnerable to many natural extremities such as landslides, earthquakes, flash floods among others. There are two issues when an extreme event hits an area. The most important one is the evacuation of the population that has been affected by the event and the second issue is to ensure mobility post event. Since the natural events are random, it is difficult to say a priori the location of occurrences of events and their impacts transport network and mobility. However, a probabilistic assessment is feasible.

Sustainable and resilient environment friendly solutions for hill road design through a pilot study on Mannarkkad - Chinnathadagam Road

Kerala is the third most thickly populated Indian state. The western ghats, or Sahyadri, covers more than 50% of Kerala state. Although Sahyadri would translate literally to "endurable mountains", they have continually attracted socio-political attention owing to the popular notion that this area cannot endure the mismatch between environmental fragility and infrastructure demand for long. It is thus imperative that there be approaches that seek equilibria on these mutually contradicting requirements.