Identification of Unprecedented Coastal Flooding Hotspots for Highway Network Durability

The proposed work outlines an innovative approach aimed at constructing a comprehensive framework and toolsets for evaluating unprecedented coastal flood risks while considering the highway network's durability. This approach involves integrating detailed highway network information with an artificial intelligence (AI) based flood model. The intellectual merit of this project resides in leveraging AI algorithms, hydrodynamic numerical simulations, road risk scoring, and remote sensing techniques to (1) develop a super-resolution, physically informed AI algorithm to improve flood hazard mapping on a road network scale and (2) transfer research outputs to operations for public benefits.