Dr. Ir. A. Zoeteman studied Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management at the Delft University of Technology, where he also holds a PhD. He works as a senior researcher at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Engineering Assets Management group. Since mid-2005 he worked as a teamleader, infrastructure architect, and policy advisor in the areas of railway track, civil works, and power supply, at ProRail, the Dutch rail infrastructure manager, and EIM, the European Rail Infrastructure Managers. Currently his key projects are in the field of traction power supply, railway vibrations and vehicle-infrastructure interaction.
Presentation Title
An Analysis to Study the Impacts of Weather Events on the Dutch Rail Infrastructure in order to Determine Future Climate Change Impacts
Abstract
As part of a multi-annual Sustainability programme for the Dutch heavy rail network, the infrastructure manager ProRail initiated a study on the possible impacts of climate change. The first step was to start analyzing the current resilience of the rail infrastructure to existing weather events. It was decided to use an available set of data on infrastructure failures, collected during the last ten years. This database was matched with the national weather history database during those years. The results will be discussed in this paper.