ABSTRACT

The Philippines is in the Golden age of Infrastructure development, where roads and bridges are currently being constructed to interconnect the cities and provinces. However, these infrastructures are susceptible to the adverse effects of climate change, as the Philippines ranked 8th on the risk index among the countries with the highest exposure to disaster. Natural hazards may temporarily or permanently interrupt the normal operation of road infrastructures resulting in the need to adopt a sustainable risk management approach for road networks exposed to natural disasters. The research aimed to find the impact of natural hazards in the shape of damages to the road network by performing statistical analysis on the natural hazards data of the year 2021. The results may help in understanding and visualizing risks and damages to road networks under natural hazards and provide effective safety management practices when a disaster occurs.