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I am Waqas Iqbal, studying PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Delaware. I have I am currently working on transportation assets resilience including roads and bridges for coastal storms. I am majoring in structural engineering so one of the concerns for coastal structures is structural integrity. For the TRB presentation, the goal is to really identify critical evacuation routes for the state of Delaware. Although DelDOT has already defined the hurricane evacuation routes there is a need to identify the critical road segments of those evacuation routes. Criticality is really dependent on the inundation depth for specific road segments and standard road clearances of vehicles. For brevity, standard tire radii are taken into account so that if the water depth is over the tire radius then it is more probable to have that road segment undrivable for specific tire size (actually tire radius will determine the ground clearance because maybe some road segment could be drivable for trucks but it's not drivable for small cars. It would be very helpful for determining the logistics during emergency situations).

The next goal is to identify the criticality of road segments using the pavement condition data and impact of inundation on the road's IRI.

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