Flooding occurs frequently in many countries including Malaysia. Floods in Malaysia are usually due to heavy and prolonged rainfall, uncontrolled development, and drainage systems that are not being monitored. Road damage due to flooding event can cause huge expenditures for the post-flooding rehabilitation and maintenance. The required maintenance and rehabilitation could upset the original life cycle cost estimations. Data on road statistics were obtained from the Highway Planning Division, Ministry of Works Malaysia and data on flooding was collected from the Department of Irrigation and Drainage Malaysia for events between 2012 and 2015. The pilot sites were selected based on its historical cases of floods that caused road damages in Kedah. The pilot site indicated that the impact of flooding on road infrastructures systems can be used to plan better road design and maintenances. It also revealed that it costs more than RM 1 million to reinstate roads damaged by flooding in a typical district annually.
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16 October 2017
PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF GLOBAL NETWORK FOR INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND AWAM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING (IGNITE-AICCE’17): Sustainable Technology And Practice For Infrastructure and Community Resilience
8–9 August 2017
Penang, Malaysia
Research Article|
October 16 2017
An overview of road damages due to flooding: Case study in Kedah state, Malaysia
Muhd Shahril Nizam Ismail;
Muhd Shahril Nizam Ismail
b)
1
Building Technology Department, School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia
, 11800 Penang, Malaysia
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Abdul Naser Abdul Ghani
Abdul Naser Abdul Ghani
a)
2
Building Technology Department, School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia
, 11800 Penang, Malaysia
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a)
Corresponding author: anaser@usm.my
AIP Conf. Proc. 1892, 190001 (2017)
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Muhd Shahril Nizam Ismail, Abdul Naser Abdul Ghani; An overview of road damages due to flooding: Case study in Kedah state, Malaysia. AIP Conf. Proc. 16 October 2017; 1892 (1): 190001. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5005787
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