How Porto Alegre's Metropolitan Road Network Coped with the Floodings?

The presentation on How Porto Alegre’s Metropolitan Road Network Coped with the Floodings? was prepared in an emergency-response context to communicate preliminary analysis results regarding the road-circulation network configuration and overall conditions after the severe floodings starting from May 2nd, 2024. Aimed at public authorities, decision-makers and volunteers from the Rio Grande do Sul State Planning Department and from Porto Alegre's crisis management office, plus to colleagues from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, it provided comparison of the road-network systems under normal conditions and the compromised access ways due to the flooding.

It provided meaningful emergency-response information for those public authorities, helping to guide emergency efforts.

This work is made possible by a collaboration between the Cardiff University/Prifysgol Caerdydd - Welsh School of Architecture and the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) -  Instituto de Pesquisas Hidráulicas (IPH)/ GESPLA Grupo de pesquisa em Planejamento e Gestão de Recursos Hídricos.

This is an ongoing effort.

How to cite:

Simplified citation (for news reports):

Altafini, D. 2024. How Porto Alegre’s Metropolitan Road Network Coped with the Floodings? [presentation]. Zenodo. https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11490520