Experience of Flood Event Documentation in Transportation System

The rate of ever increasing natural disasters and high amount of expenditures that are
allocated to engineering and executive approaches for management of numerous crises
worldwide considerably justifies the necessity of review and evaluation of plans and programs
pertaining to natural disasters mitigation.
A basic tool which could be used for review and evaluation of short term and long term plans
is documents associated with an event in an extensive way including consequences, damages,
and implemented measures covering four stages of disaster management cycle containing
Prevention, preparedness, response and recovery.
Professional documentation of events covering all engineering and management activities in
an extensive way provides executives with a very useful facility to be used for evaluation and
review of plans, event routing, figuring out the down points of management processes and finally
proposing corrective actions.
Documentation is as a subordinate of knowledge management that draws a logical process in
order to gather different levels of with knowledge and to convert them from the most basic
level(data) to the highest one(expertise) in a way to be considered in significant decision
makings.
This paper has been written based on leading an applied research project which concentrates
on designing an applicable structure which is targeted to document past flood events in ground
transport system including road and railway section of IMRT6. In the mentioned project, the
optimized level of documentation was set based on investigation of existing condition of
documentation in IMRT to understand their level of expectation, performing an extensive
literature review from the patterns that have been implemented in other countries and finally
following existing standards and guidelines.