Road infrastructures, such as bridges, culverts and floodway's are vital components to facilitate the mobility of people. However, they are subjected to damage during natural disasters such as extrement flood events. Damage to those road infrastructures has impact to the general household travels, emergency services and reconstruction activities, in three phases, namely before, during and after a natural disaster. Current practice in ranking roads and road infrastructures is mainly based on the traffic volume. However, recent extreme flood events that Queensland experienced in 2011 and 2013, indicated that resilience is an important aspect to be addressed. Several road infrastructures were subjected to damage and hence communities were completely or partially isolated for short or long period of time depending on the pace of reconstruction activities. in an event of a widespread natural disaster, it is important to evaluate the impact of the road infrastructure damage and prioritize them based on the resilience of the community. This research will therefore develop a novel framework to rank road infrastructures based on the resilience of the community.

Professor Karu Karunasena

• Assoc Prof Weena Lokuge

• Centre for Future Materials
• Institute for Agriculture and the Environment
• School of Engineering and Built Environment

• Civil Engineering
• Engineering Design
• Materials Engineering

• Doctor of Philosophy (DPHD)
• Doctor of Philosophy (DPHD)