Improving highway safety by reducing landslides hazard with smart alert and warning system

2025-03-19

Dr. Zhuping Sheng

Landslides is one of major geohazards that pose great threat to highway safety, human lives and community economy. Therefore, it is of critical importance to better assessing risks of slope failure and timely planning geotechnical asset management strategies in preventing landslides and minimizing impacts of landslides. Dr. Sheng will provide an overview on landslides risk assessment and a framework for development of smart alert and warning system, aiming at improving highway safety by reducing landslides risks and enhancing asset management. This framework is built on the Geographic Information System (GIS) platform for processing data, integrating physical models with machine learning algorithms, assessing risks of slope failure and delivering early warning and alert for geotechnical asset management.