RAFAEL is a project involving a vast Italian national partnership led by ENEA and participated by ANAS among several other organisations. RAFAEL aims to create a system for the forecast and analysis of real or end-user defined catastrophic events and for the assessment of the possible risks on critical infrastructures (including road, electricity, telecommunication, water networks) in terms of physical damages reduced/lost services, as well as for the evaluation of the cascading consequences for the served communities.

Towards that data are collected, collated and elaborated in term of Key Performance Indicators, KPI, from various types of sensors and from forecast systems, including among others, remote sensing, environmental sensors, seismic and geo-dynamic sensors and meteorological forecasts.

Damage and impact scenarios for events that might occur in the short-medium term are therefore elaborated and constantly updated with a continuous flow of upcoming data. The RAFAEL system further to allowing to perform analysis based on real data for supporting the operational management of the emergency and response phases, it allows also to simulate end -user defined scenario for events such as earthquakes or extreme weather-induced events, and to evaluate the possible impacts and consequences for risk mitigation and contingency planning purposes.