Floods’ Impact on Cities’ Critical Infrastructure: A Case Study on Dubai
Critical infrastructure is defined as the core health, safety, and security facilities that maintain key social functions at the time of an emergency. With the weather instability driven by the effects of climate change, many normally dry lands are facing an increase in rainfall-induced floods. The...
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| description | Critical infrastructure is defined as the core health, safety, and security facilities that maintain key social functions at the time of an emergency. With the weather instability driven by the effects of climate change, many normally dry lands are facing an increase in rainfall-induced floods. The expected lack of preparedness in these cities to handle floods raises concerns regarding the possible impacts on regular civilian’s lives. This problem requires a thorough analysis of cities’ ability to keep critical infrastructure safe, accessible, and easy to reach during disrupting events such as floods. In this study, we propose a new methodology to analyze the impact of floods on arid cities’ critical infrastructure using open data. We showcase our methodology on the city of Dubai which was hit by a thunderstorm earlier this year causing nation-wide floods. Our quantitative analysis was capable of determining that the Al Quoz area suffered the most from floods due to issues related to the city’s connectivity and critical infrastructure distribution. The main road connecting both sides of the area was completely blocked due to the floods with distant alternative connections while critical infrastructure was mainly concentrated on one of the two sides only. This resulted in a high increase in travel time delay and lower reachability scores. On the other hand, the Airport and Trade Center areas show a high reachability and low travel time delays as per the results obtained. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9efc0d2d041a4dd0b058607a2c4f1f1c2025-02-04T00:00:49ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-0113176521766110.1109/ACCESS.2025.352755410835072Floods’ Impact on Cities’ Critical Infrastructure: A Case Study on DubaiDiaa Addeen Abuhani0Raghad Aldamani1https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0748-4158Imran Zualkernan2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1048-5633Reem Alali3https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3488-3509Himanshu Grover4Department of Computer Science and Engineering, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesDepartment of Remote Sensing, Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesDepartment of Architecture, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesCritical infrastructure is defined as the core health, safety, and security facilities that maintain key social functions at the time of an emergency. With the weather instability driven by the effects of climate change, many normally dry lands are facing an increase in rainfall-induced floods. The expected lack of preparedness in these cities to handle floods raises concerns regarding the possible impacts on regular civilian’s lives. This problem requires a thorough analysis of cities’ ability to keep critical infrastructure safe, accessible, and easy to reach during disrupting events such as floods. In this study, we propose a new methodology to analyze the impact of floods on arid cities’ critical infrastructure using open data. We showcase our methodology on the city of Dubai which was hit by a thunderstorm earlier this year causing nation-wide floods. Our quantitative analysis was capable of determining that the Al Quoz area suffered the most from floods due to issues related to the city’s connectivity and critical infrastructure distribution. The main road connecting both sides of the area was completely blocked due to the floods with distant alternative connections while critical infrastructure was mainly concentrated on one of the two sides only. This resulted in a high increase in travel time delay and lower reachability scores. On the other hand, the Airport and Trade Center areas show a high reachability and low travel time delays as per the results obtained.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10835072/Critical infrastructurefloodsarid citiesclimate changeOpenStreetMapssatellite imagery |
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| title | Floods’ Impact on Cities’ Critical Infrastructure: A Case Study on Dubai |
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