General RASP References

• RASP R&D Summary (7MB)
• A Heirarchy of Risk Assessment Methods, Sayers and Meadowcroft. Presented at the Defra 2005 Conference (1MB)

Key references for the RASP model

• The High Level Method that was used in NaFRA 2002 and NaFRA 2003
• The High Level Method, HR Wallingford, 2002 (14MB)
• A Methodology for National Scale Flood Risk Assessment, Hall et al. ICE Water Management Paper 2003 (3MB)
• The High+ method used in NaFRA 2004, 2005 and 2006
• The National Flood Risk Assessment 2004, HR Wallingford, 2004 (1MB)
• The RASP RFSM method used in FLOODsite, TE2100, PAMS, MDSF2 and NaFRA 2008
• TE2100 IA model version 3 report, HR Wallingford, 2006 (33MB)
• A Methodology for Regional Scale Flood Risk Assessment, Gouldby et al. ICE Water Management Paper 2008 (3MB)
• NaFRA 2008 Pre-process and analysis tool manual, HR Wallingford, 2008 (4MB)

Key references for aspects of the RASP model

• Sources
• The JOIN-SEA joint probability method, Hawkes and co-authors, Journal of Hydraulic Research 2002 (1MB)
• A conditional approach for multivariate extreme values, Hefferan and Tawn, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 2004 (3MB)
• Pathways
• HR Wallingford Reports for the EA R&D project concerning performance and reliability of flood defences, including a review and methods relating to fragility
• Performance and Reliability of Flood and Coastal Defences (TR 1), 2005 (2MB)
• Performance and Reliability of Flood and Coastal Defences (TR 2), 2005 (1MB)
• HR Wallingford user manual on the software tool RELIABLE that generates fragility curves developed by HR Wallingford and co-researchers under FLOODsite Task 7 and FRMRC WP4 RELIABLE (1MB)
• Spreadsheet containing a description of the RASP Defence classes (1MB)
• The practical aspects of developing fragility curves, Simm et al, Presented at the Flood Risk 2008 Oxford conference (1MB)
• Refinements of the Rapid Flood Spreading Method, L'homme and co-authors, Presented at the Flood Risk 2008 Oxford conference (1MB)
• Receptors
• NaFRA 2008 Technical Note - Economic Calculations, HR Wallingford, 2008 (1MB)
• Sensitivity analysis and uncertainty propagation through RASP (RASP-MC tool)
• The development and application of efficient methods for the forward propagation of epistemic uncertainty and sensitivity analysis within complex broadscale flood risk system models, Gouldby et al, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2010 (in press)
• Statement of confidence in the NaFRA probability bandings, HR Wallingford, 2009 (1MB)

Further useful references

• Long term planning - Robust strategic decision making in the face of gross uncertainty, McGahey and Sayers, 2008 (1MB)
• RASP was used to provide the quantified analysis within the Foresight Future Flooding Studies Foresight Future Flooding studies, UK