NYC Transit Flood Resiliency: Case Studies of Recently Completed Mitigation Strategies
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Timothy Savery
(Arup)
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Congress: The Evolving Metropolis, New York, NY, USA, 4-6 September 2019 | ||||
| Published in: | The Evolving Metropolis | ||||
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| Page(s): | 2616-2618 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 3 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/newyork.2019.2616 | ||||
| Abstract: |
MTA New York City Transit (NYCT) suffered significant damage from Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and hired Arup to design flood mitigation strategies for various system vulnerabilities. Arup developed innovative permanent solutions to mitigate the various system vulnerabilities identified, including working with specialty fabricators to develop products for these specific purposes in order to provide the required protection of up to 14 feet of flood depth. These efforts have resulted in innovate, new, purpose driven methods of flood mitigation that were not previously available on the market. These new systems result in dramatically reduced deployment time ahead of a storm event as well as a significant increase in the performance of the mitigation including reduced leakage rates. This paper reviews various system vulnerabilities present in transit systems and presents case studies for the various mitigation strategies that were developed. |
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| Keywords: |
flooding Flood resilience Transit
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