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Track: Emergency Management and Public Safety
Parveen Darbar
Michael Baker Jr. Corporation
3601 Eisenhower Avenue Suite 600
Alexandria, VA 22304
Telephone: 703-960-8800
Fax: 70- 960-9125
E-mail: pdarbar@mbakercorp.com
Myles Powers, Kamau Njuguna
Application of Graphical User Interface as a Tool in the Study of Pipeline Safety
In 1994 a pipeline rupture occurred in the San Jacinto River Valley, Texas, as a result of flooding causing widespread damage. This incident prompted the Research and Special Programs Administration Office of Pipeline Safety, United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) to research the effects of natural hazards on pipelines. The purpose of the study is to identify priority areas of the national pipeline infrastructure that present higher probability of failure due to natural disasters and have higher consequences in the event of failure. Through interagency cooperation, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and it contractor, Michael Baker Jr., Inc., provide research services, data, and hardware and software facilities to USDOT. The findings will enable the agencies to direct their resources to those areas of the pipeline infrastructure that would have the greatest impact and aid in mitigation activities. The GIS database of natural hazards includes floods, seismic, landslides, and other
weather related phenomena. The consequence database includes demographic, property, commerce, environmental damage and health risk data. Michael Baker Jr., Inc. is building a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to display and query the natural hazard and pipeline failure consequence data layers developed through this research project. The interface is designed to assist integrating GIS data during development of pipeline failure scenarios and evaluate the potential impacts. This paper briefly describes the research project and focuses on the application of the data using ArcView Version 3.0 as an information integration and delivery tool. Data forms include ARCGRID and vector formats.
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