Stress Testing the Dutch National Highway Network

Presenter: Thomas Bles
Institution / Organiztion / Agency: Deltares

Bio: Thomas Bles (1979) is a senior consultant at Deltares, the Netherlands, working in various working fields being climate change adaptation, critical infrastructures, extreme weather impacts, underground constructions, pipelines, risk analysis and incident management. Binding factor in these fields are large uncertainties, cooperation with many different parties and a translation of specialist knowhow to feasible end products.
Since 2009 Thomas is mainly working in the field of resilient infrastructure. He both worked on research projects aiming at the development of guidelines and frameworks for natural hazard risk assessments and adaptation, as well as projects in which the obtained knowledge was implemented in practice. He has performed many stress tests on road networks and formulated adaptation strategies, both in the Netherlands as well as abroad. Since 2018 the research programme Resilient Infrastructures has been established at Deltares, with Thomas in the lead.