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The damage and threats caused by extreme weather events have become more varied in different regions across Europe and worldwide in recent years.  In 2005 the centre of the Finnish capital Helsinki was nearly flooded because… Read More

Beatriz Martinez-Pastor, Maria Nogal and Alan O’Connor from the department of Civil Engineering at Trinity College Dublin presented the paper ‘Bi-phase methodology for sensitivity analysis of complex models, applied to the model of evaluating resilience… Read More

Beatriz Martinez-Pastor, Maria Nogal, Alan O’Connor and Brian Caulfield presented their latest research in the field of Transport Resilience in the World’s Largest Gathering of Transportation Professionals, Annual Meeting TRB, where the team had the… Read More

On December 8th 2015, the RAIN consortium participated in the debate about future research ideas for ‘Safety and Security in Critical Infrastructures’ at the Knowledge4Innovation Forum at the European Parliament in Brussels. The summit was… Read More

Beatriz Martinez Pastor is a PhD student in the Department of Civil Engineering at Trinity College Dublin whose work within the RAIN project consists of developing mathematical models to assess resilience in transport networks under… Read More

Luckily, past mistakes can sometimes be useful for present or especially future decisions. This can apply to spatial planning and management in response to natural disasters and extreme weather events. In this field the role… Read More

Engineers from Trinity speak on RTÉ about their involvement in project RAIN, which seeks to develop an extreme weather risk-management framework for use across the EU. This is the time of year at which many… Read More