The RA2CE – Resilience Assessment and Action perspective for Critical infrastructurE – model has been developed to support infrastructure owners and operators in resilience assessment and adaptation decision-making and has been applied in several settings such as the Netherlands, Philippines, Myanmar, Dominican Republic and Albania.
The current capabilities focus on mapping the exposure, criticality, and vulnerability as well as the forthcoming prioritisation of locations to take actions based on cost benefit assessment. For further assessment of indirect impacts, inclusiveness and equity principles can be applied. In adaptation and planning studies the platform enables to perform cost-benefit assessments including an uncertain future
Release Notes
The application of RA2CE is demonstrated in Jupyter Notebooks developed in interTwin (https://github.com/interTwin-eu/DT-flood/).
This release offers a basic example of how to set up a RA2CE model for applications in flood impact modelling and a basic demonstration of the coupling between RA2CE and the FloodAdapt backend.
Users can specify a geographic area of interest to set up a RA2CE model to assess the impact of floods on the road network in that area, including travel times to important locations. Using the provided notebook example with this release the RA2CE model is automatically configured to couple to the FloodAdapt backend by reading in flood hazard maps from FloodAdapt. RA2CE can be run using a Docker container to support running on heterogeneous computing infrastructure.
Future Plans
Future releases will focus on improving the visualizations provided in the Jupyter Notebooks developed for interTwin.
