Taitung Coastal Highway Wave Attack Early Warning System
- Date：2019-03-07
- Update：2019-03-07
- Department：IOT
Project Overview：
National Highway No. 9 is the primary highway from Taitung to the west. Some of the newly constructed seafront road sections have been damaged or closed by the typhoon wave attacks in recent years. In order to improve the disaster prevention and response time of wave attacks, this Institute researches and develops the coastal highway wave run-up estimation technology, to provide the disaster prevention warning information needed for the passage safety of road sections attacked by waves during typhoons.
To integrate the Taiwan Marine Real Time Observation Operation System developed by this Institute, Taiwan Coastal Marine Simulation Operation System, and Taitung Coastal Highway Wave Run-up System, we have constructed the "Taitung Coastal Highway Wave Attack Early Warning System" with a simple webpage to provide early warning information for the road sections of Highway No. 9 (Duoliang section, Nanxing section) prone to wave attack disaster during typhoon, as the reference to assist decision making of road closure during wave attacks.
Research Achievements：
To integrate Taitung's proximity observation, simulation data and wave run-up system, we have constructed the "Taitung Coastal Highway Wave Attack Early Warning System" with a simple webpage to provide 24-hour wave attack early warning information for the Duoliang and Nanxing Sections as the reference to assist decision making of road closure during wave attacks, which can improve the road closure operations that rely solely on real time observations, allowing personnel to have sufficient time for emergency response and dispatch.
Promotion of Outcomes and Benefits ：
(1)The outcomes were promoted as a disaster prevention emergency response reference for the Third Maintenance Office, Directorate General of Highways, Ministry of Transportation and Communications to reduce the safety risks of on-site personnel monitoring during typhoons, and to have sufficient time for emergency response and dispatch. The Third Maintenance Office has organized promotional education and training in January 2018.
(2)The system will continue to conduct rolling reviews uring typhoons in the future to improve the accuracy of the early warning system. The research outcomes can also serve as a basis for future studies on the characteristics of the coastal terrain changes along the Taitung Coastal Highway (National Highway No. 9).
(3)The project has been presented in the Ministry Affairs Report on May 10, 2018, and the outcomes were promoted to the competent authorities in charge of highways: Freeway Bureau, Directorate General of Highways, and Taiwan Railways Administration... equivalent to the use of coastal highway and railway inspection and monitoring management.
Summary of Key Research Outcomes：
