Flood, fire and the future: the road to resilience
Help transport planners find and predict which roads will be blocked or damaged in the next flood or bushfire
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Flood, fire and the future: the road to resilience
Project Info
Team Name
Evil
Team Members
6 members with unpublished profiles.
Project Description
Australia's economic loss due to flooding has been catastrophic. With the foreseen increase in rain events surrounding and effecting Queensland, it is crucial to introduce strategic transport planning for our freight carriers.
This project proposes the creation of an app that will assist transport planners by providing them with freight data. The freight data will provide information regarding current or potentially damaged/blocked roads, due to flooding.
Flood Freight Assist (FFA) will be accessible to freight carriers, helping them to complete their routes more efficiently by indicating any travel routes that are at risk of flooding after a rain event.
Data Story
In order to provide a strategic transport planing tool, it was necessary to analyse a wide variety of datasets that outlined:
=> Basins and Floodplains: areas that are more prone to collect water and flood after a rain event.
=> Key Freight Routes: significant routes that are used to transport bulk commodities and connect the economy.
=> Financial Income and Loss: statistics that provide insight to the income indirectly generated from freight carriers.
The integration of these datasets provided us with enough information to devise the proposal of Flood Freight Assist (FFA) for transport planners and freight carriers. FFA will assist transport planners by equipping them with the necessary information to monitor current road blockages and predict future road blockages.
Team DataSets
Reservoirs in Queensland
Description of Use This dataset has been used to identify potential freight routes that are located near bodies of water, and therefore areas that are more susceptible to flooding.
Flood Extent for Queensland - January 2011
Description of Use This data was used to identify areas where flooding has occurred within Queensland, which can be used to predict areas at risk of flooding.
Drainage Basins for Queensland
Description of Use This dataset was used to analyse and identify the areas within Queensland that are at a risk of collecting water and flooding after a rain event.
International Trade in Goods and Services for Australia
Description of Use This dataset was used to solidify an understanding about Australia's economic income and potential loss relating to the trade industry.
Queensland Floodplain Assessment Overlay
Description of Use This dataset has been used to help identify areas at risk of flooding after a rain event.
Key Freight Routes
Description of Use This dataset has been used to indicate Australia's nationally significant routes for freight.