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WEATHER Weather Extremes: Assessment of Impacts on Transport Systems and Hazards for European Regions WEATHER D6 : CASE STUDIES Synthesis Report Status: Public Version: 1.0 Date: 03.02.2012 Authors: Hedi Maurer, Loreta Rudzikaite, Jan Kiel (Panteia BV, Business Unit NEA), Ina Partzsch (Fraunhofer IVI), Verena Pelikan (Herry), Norbert Sedlacek (Herry), Evangelos Mitsakis, Iraklis Stamos, Anestis Papanikolaou (CERTH-HIT), Miria Celano, Paolo Mezzasalma, Valentina Pavan, Pier Paolo Alberoni (Agenzia Regionale Prevenzione e Ambiente dell'Emilia Romagna, Servizio Idro-Meteo-Clima ), Elisabetta Genovese, Valentin Przyluski, Stéphane Hallegatte (CIRED) DISCLAIMER This Document is in draft version waiting for formal approval by the European Commission. Citations and references to the document shall contain the status information “unapproved draft”. Study funded under the 7th framework programme of the European Commission WEATHER D6: Case Studies Document details This document should be cited as: Maurer, H.; Rudzikaite, L., Kiel, J., et al. (2012): WEATHER Case studies – Synthesis Report; (Weather Extremes: Impacts on Transport Systems and Hazards for European Regions) funded under the 7th framework programme of the European Commission. Project co-ordinator: Fraunhofer-ISI. Karlsruhe, January 2012. Document title: WEATHER Case studies Lead author: Contributions: Version: 1.0 Date: 03.02.2012 Status: Public Quality review: Fraunhofer ISI (Claus Doll, Jonathan Köhler) Accepted: The WEATHER project: Full title: WEATHER – Weather Extremes: Impacts on Transport Systems and Hazards for European Regions. Duration: November 1st 2009 to April 30th 2012 Funding: Call 2008-TPT-1, 7th framework programme of the European Commission, Directorate General for Research and Technical Development Contract.: Grant Agreement no. 233 783 Consortium: Fraunhofer-Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), Karlsruhe – project co- ordinator Fraunhofer-Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (IVI), Dresden , Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Hellenic Institute for Transport (HIT), Thessaloniki Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et de Sciences Humaines - International research Center on Environment and Development (SMASH-CIRED), Paris Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT), Institute for Industrial Production (IIP), Karlsru Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems (ISIS), Rome HERRY Consult GmbH, Vienna Agenzia Regionale Prevenzione e Ambiente dell'Emilia Romagna (ARPA-ER), Servizio Idro- Meteo-Clima (SIMC), Bologna NEA Transport Research and Training, Zoetermeer Internet: www.weather-project.eu Contact: Dr. Claus Doll Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), Breslauer Str. 48, 76139 Karlsruhe, Germany, T: +49 721 6809-354, E: [email protected] WEATHER D6: Case Studies Content Executive Summary ..................................................................................................... I 1 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 1 1.1 What is WEATHER? ............................................................................ 1 1.2 Objectives of WP6 Case Studies .......................................................... 1 1.3 Scope of the Case Studies ................................................................... 1 1.4 Structure of the Report ......................................................................... 3 2 Methodology ......................................................................................................... 4 2.1 Justification of the Selected Cases ....................................................... 4 2.2 Applied Approach ................................................................................. 5 2.3 Relation with other Work packages within WEATHER ......................... 6 3 Case Study 1: Flood of 2002 in Eastern Germany ............................................. 7 3.1 Case Study Description ........................................................................ 7 3.2 Transport Sector Impacts ..................................................................... 8 3.3 Crisis and Emergency Management .................................................. 12 3.4 Adaptation measures ......................................................................... 16 3.5 Case specific analysis ........................................................................ 20 3.6 Summary and Lessons Learned ......................................................... 25 4 Case Study 2: Summer Heat 2007 in Southern Europe ................................... 26 4.1 Case Study Description ...................................................................... 26 4.2 Transport Sector Impacts ................................................................... 32 4.3 Adaptation Measures ......................................................................... 48 I WEATHER D6: Case Studies 4.4 Case Specific Analysis ....................................................................... 53 4.5 Summary and Lessons learned .......................................................... 55 5 Case Study 3: Flooding of the rail link Vienna – Prague in 2006 .................... 57 5.1 Case Study Description ...................................................................... 57 5.2 Transport Sector Impacts ................................................................... 60 5.3 Crisis and Emergency Management .................................................. 70 5.4 Adaptation Measures ......................................................................... 71 5.5 Case Specific Analysis ....................................................................... 78 5.6 Summary and Lessons Learned ......................................................... 85 6 Case Study 4: Hurricanes Xynthia 2010 in France ........................................... 87 6.1 Case Study Description ...................................................................... 87 6.2 Transport sector impacts .................................................................. 100 6.3 Crisis and emergency management ................................................. 102 6.4 Adaptation measures ....................................................................... 106 6.5 Case specific analysis ...................................................................... 111 6.6 Summary and lessons learned ......................................................... 112 7 Case Study 5: Heavy Snow on Alpine Roads ................................................. 113 7.1 Case Study Description .................................................................... 113 7.2 Transport sector impacts .................................................................. 122 7.3 Crisis and Emergency Management ................................................ 125 7.4 Adaptation Measures ....................................................................... 126 7.5 Summary and Lessons Learned ....................................................... 131 8 Case Study 6: Rhine Shipping during 2003 Summer Heat ............................ 133 II WEATHER D6: Case Studies 8.1 Case Study Description .................................................................... 133 8.2 Transport Sector Impacts ................................................................. 139 8.3 Crisis and Emergency Management ................................................ 143 8.4 Adaptation Measures ....................................................................... 144 8.5 Case Specific Analysis ..................................................................... 146 8.6 Summary and Lessons Learned ....................................................... 148 9 Conclusions and Recommendations .............................................................. 151 9.1 Conclusions ..................................................................................... 151 9.2 Recommendations ........................................................................... 158 9.3 Study goals and achievements ........................................................ 160 References............................................................................................................... 166 Annex A: Fact sheet Case Study 1: Flood of 2002 in Eastern Germany ............. 181 Annex B: Fact sheet case study 2: Summer heat 2007 in Southern Europe ...... 183 Annex C: Fact sheet case study 3: Flooding of the rail link Vienna – Prague in 2006 ............................................................................................................... 185 Annex D: Fact sheet case study 4: Xynthia Windstorm 2010 .............................. 187 Annex E: Fact sheet case study 5: Heavy snow on alpine roads ........................ 189 Annex F: Fact sheet case study 6: Rhine shipping during 2003 summer heat ... 191 Annex G: Other Material (e.g. interviews).............................................................. 192 III WEATHER D6: Case Studies Abstract ................................................................................................................... 193 Objectives 193 Input Datasets .................................................................................................... 193 Rn_pelop (Peloponnesus Road Network) ........................................................... 193 Rn_firms (FIRMS Product) ................................................................................