An intelligent decision support system for managing natural and man-made disasters

Climate change-induced disasters are gaining in both severity and . In view of their associated increased impacts on human assets and , public and private stakeholders have lately turned their attention to and effectively managing their effects, both prior as well as during event’s occurrence. In an effort to address this issue, the DECIDE intelligent support systems (iDSS) has been developed, validated and tested realistic conditions, aiming to assist public authorities in safe-proofing protecting transport networks and operations in case of extreme weather and related natural hazards. The iDSS is a web-based, GIS-enabled , able to suggest protection and management measures that optimally occurring events, the affected modes of transport and transport and infrastructures. Optimal protection actions are derived from a containing measures, strategies and policies that have been deployed EU level in the last decades.