Title
FloodCitiSense: Early Warning Service for Urban Pluvial Floods for and by Citizens and City Authorities
Author
Verbeiren, Boud (Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Brussels Company for Water Management (SBGE/BMWB))
Seyoum, Solomon Dagnachew (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Lubbad, Ihab (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Tian, X. (TU Delft Water Resources) 
ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (TU Delft Water Resources)
Onof, Christian (Imperial College London)
Wang, Li Pen (Imperial College London; RainPlusPlus Ltd.)
Ochoa-Rodriguez, Susana (RPS Group Plc)
Veeckman, Carina (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Contributor
Mannina, Giorgio (editor)
Date
2019
Abstract
FloodCitiSense aims at developing an urban pluvial flood early warning service for, but also by citizens and city authorities, building upon the state-of-the-art knowledge, methodologies and smart technologies provided by research units and private companies. FloodCitiSense targets the co-creation of this innovative public service in an urban living lab context with all local actors. This service will reduce the vulnerability of urban areas and citizens to pluvial floods, which occur when heavy rainfall exceeds the capacity of the urban drainage system. Due to their fast onset and localized nature, they cause significant damage to the urban environment and are challenging to manage. Monitoring and management of peak events in cities is typically in the hands of local governmental agencies. Citizens most often just play a passive role as people negatively affected by the flooding, despite the fact that they are often the ‘first responders’ and should therefore be actively involved. The FloodCitiSense project aims at integrating crowdsourced hydrological data, collaboratively monitored by local stakeholders, including citizens, making use of low-cost sensors and web-based technologies, into a flood early warning system. This will enable ‘citizens and cities’ to be better prepared for and better respond to urban pluvial floods. Three European pilot cities are targeted: Brussels – Belgium, Rotterdam – The Netherlands and Birmingham – UK.
Subject
Citizen science
Flood early warning system
Urban pluvial flooding
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99867-1_114
Publisher
Springer
Embargo date
2019-03-01
ISBN
9783319998664
Source
New Trends in Urban Drainage Modelling - UDM 2018
Event
11th International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling, UDM 2018, 2018-09-23 → 2018-09-26, Palermo, Italy
Series
Green Energy and Technology, 1865-3529
Bibliographical note
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Institutional Repository
Document type
conference paper
Rights
© 2019 Boud Verbeiren, Solomon Dagnachew Seyoum, Ihab Lubbad, X. Tian, Marie-claire ten Veldhuis, Christian Onof, Li Pen Wang, Susana Ochoa-Rodriguez, Carina Veeckman, More Authors