Water Distribution Network Perspective in RAFAEL Project, A System for Critical Infrastructure Risk Analysis and Forecast

Abstract

RAFAEL is the acronym for “system for Risk Analysis and Forecast for critical infrastructure in ApenninEs dorsaL regions” project (PNR 2015–2020 Italian Ministry of University and Research). As part of technological developments undertaken over the last few years, it aims at integrating ad hoc technologies, developed within the project, into a platform, the CIPCast Decision Support System (DSS), which will become the reference platform to support the critical infrastructures (CI) protection and risk analysis, in favour of the Operators and the Public Administration. RAFAEL deals with the management of numerous CI evaluating the damages of natural disastrous on individual elements. the impacts on the services and the consequences on the interdependent CIs. The water supply network issue is approached in the presented research, by means of a heuristic approach. The relevant impacts on the water distribution system have been investigated through the combination of a hydraulic simulation model and a reliability analysis of the hydraulic parameters. The methodology has been applied to the Castel San Giorgio water distribution network.