HARMONIZED REGIONAL RISK EXPOSURE MODEL OF BASIC SERVICES AND TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE OF CBR BETWEEN N.MACEDONIA, GREECE AND ALBANIA

In recent years, the improvement of disaster and emergency management through building a harmonized and efficient system for risk assessment of structures in the cross-border region (CBR) has become increasingly popular. Harmonization of the risk exposure model for cross border regions is first and most important step for assessment of risk in the region. Different countries, even neighboring ones, have different frameworks in which buildings for basic services and transport infrastructures are designed, built and maintained. Hence, they involve different institutions and employ different ways of gathering information on existing structures within their networks. Each of them may use different methods and systems for keeping records on their assets. Therefore, there is no readily available inventory which covers the entire stock of bridges and buildings for basic services in any of the CRISIS adjacent partner countries. The harmonized regional risk exposure model is result of the activities carried out within one of the working packages of two-year EU-funded project CRISIS (Comprehensive RISk assessment of basic services and transport InfraStructure). In this paper harmonized regional risk exposure model for the basic services (schools and hospitals) and transport infrastructure (bridges) is shown. Herein presented are the realized activities that enabled developing a harmonized cross-border regional risk exposure model, which encompasses all relevant assets related to the basic services and transport infrastructure. A regional exposure database has been created based on contemporary practice and research compatible with the GEM Exposure Database (https://storage.globalquakemodel.org/what/physical-integrated-risk/exposure-database/). This database is specific enough to conduct numerical analysis and develop or select proper vulnerability functions.