A new method for calculating highway blocking due to high-impact weather conditions
<p>Fog, rain, snow, and ice are the high-impact weather events that often lead to highway blockings, which in turn causes serious economic and human losses. At present, there is no clear calculation method for the severity of highway blocking, which is related to highway load degree and econom...
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| author | D. Liu T. Jing T. Jing T. Jing M. Yan I. Gultepe Y. Bao Y. Bao Y. Bao H. Wang F. Zu |
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| description | <p>Fog, rain, snow, and ice are the high-impact weather events that often lead to highway blockings, which in turn causes serious economic and human losses. At present, there is no clear calculation method for the severity of highway blocking, which is related to highway load degree and economic losses. Therefore, there is an urgent need to propose a method for assessing the economic losses caused by high-impact weather events that lead to highway blockages, in order to facilitate the management and control of highways and the evaluation of economic losses. The goal of this work is to develop a method to be used to assess the high-impact weather (HIW) effects on highway blocking. Based on the <span class="inline-formula"><i>K</i></span>-means cluster analysis and the CRITIC (criteria importance through intercriteria correlation) weight assignment method, we analyzed the highway-blocking events that occurred in Chinese provinces in 2020. Through cluster analysis, a new method of severity levels of highway blocking is developed to distinguish the severity into five levels. The severity levels of highway blocking due to high-impact weather are evaluated for all weather types. As a part of calculating the degree of highway blocking, the highway load in each province is evaluated. The economic losses caused by dense fog are specifically assessed for the entire country.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj-art-221d5a72ee904e08b379c198553d33452025-02-06T07:23:17ZengCopernicus PublicationsNatural Hazards and Earth System Sciences1561-86331684-99812025-02-012549351310.5194/nhess-25-493-2025A new method for calculating highway blocking due to high-impact weather conditionsD. Liu0T. Jing1T. Jing2T. Jing3M. Yan4I. Gultepe5Y. Bao6Y. Bao7Y. Bao8H. Wang9F. Zu10Key Laboratory of Transportation Meteorology of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210041, ChinaKey Laboratory of Transportation Meteorology of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210041, ChinaCollaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science, Technology, Nanjing 210041, ChinaAdvanced Institute of Natural Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519087, ChinaHighway Monitoring & Emergency Response Center, Ministry of Transport the People's Republic of China, Beijing 100029, ChinaEngineering and Applied Science, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Toronto, CanadaKey Laboratory of Transportation Meteorology of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210041, ChinaCollaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science, Technology, Nanjing 210041, ChinaEngineering Research Center for Internet of Things Equipment Super-Fusion Application and Security in Jiangsu Province, Wuxi University, Wuxi 214105, ChinaKey Laboratory of Transportation Meteorology of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210041, ChinaKey Laboratory of Transportation Meteorology of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210041, China<p>Fog, rain, snow, and ice are the high-impact weather events that often lead to highway blockings, which in turn causes serious economic and human losses. At present, there is no clear calculation method for the severity of highway blocking, which is related to highway load degree and economic losses. Therefore, there is an urgent need to propose a method for assessing the economic losses caused by high-impact weather events that lead to highway blockages, in order to facilitate the management and control of highways and the evaluation of economic losses. The goal of this work is to develop a method to be used to assess the high-impact weather (HIW) effects on highway blocking. Based on the <span class="inline-formula"><i>K</i></span>-means cluster analysis and the CRITIC (criteria importance through intercriteria correlation) weight assignment method, we analyzed the highway-blocking events that occurred in Chinese provinces in 2020. Through cluster analysis, a new method of severity levels of highway blocking is developed to distinguish the severity into five levels. The severity levels of highway blocking due to high-impact weather are evaluated for all weather types. As a part of calculating the degree of highway blocking, the highway load in each province is evaluated. The economic losses caused by dense fog are specifically assessed for the entire country.</p>https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/493/2025/nhess-25-493-2025.pdf |
| spellingShingle | D. Liu T. Jing T. Jing T. Jing M. Yan I. Gultepe Y. Bao Y. Bao Y. Bao H. Wang F. Zu A new method for calculating highway blocking due to high-impact weather conditions Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences |
| title | A new method for calculating highway blocking due to high-impact weather conditions |
| title_full | A new method for calculating highway blocking due to high-impact weather conditions |
| title_fullStr | A new method for calculating highway blocking due to high-impact weather conditions |
| title_full_unstemmed | A new method for calculating highway blocking due to high-impact weather conditions |
| title_short | A new method for calculating highway blocking due to high-impact weather conditions |
| title_sort | new method for calculating highway blocking due to high impact weather conditions |
| url | https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/493/2025/nhess-25-493-2025.pdf |
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