{"id":2544,"date":"2026-03-12T02:43:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/coastal\/?page_id=2544"},"modified":"2026-03-12T02:49:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:49:48","slug":"tfw-pilot-study","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/coastal\/projects\/tfw-pilot-study\/","title":{"rendered":"TfW-Pilot Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<h3>Climate Change and Flooding Risk on the Core Valleys Network of TfW<\/h3>\n<p>This is a pilot project for Transport for Wales (TfW) and aims to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0assess the availability, solution and shortcomings of existing system data sets in the Core Valleys Lines (CVL) of the Transport for Wale (TfW) networks, in particularly the catchment of\n<ul>\n<li>the River Cynon between Aberdare and Abercynon;<\/li>\n<li>the Rhondda River between Tonypandy and Porth;\u00a0 and<\/li>\n<li>the Rhymney River between Rhymney and Pontlottyn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>design a project management programme for the development of an operational flood warning system.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/shunqipan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/488\/2024\/01\/area.png?resize=513%2C605\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate Change and Flooding Risk on the Core Valleys Network of TfW This is a pilot project for Transport for Wales (TfW) and aims to: \u00a0assess the availability, solution and shortcomings of existing system data sets in the Core Valleys Lines (CVL) of the Transport for Wale (TfW) networks, in particularly the catchment of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1083,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2544","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6QOqN-F2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27,"url":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/coastal\/projects\/","url_meta":{"origin":2544,"position":0},"title":"Projects","author":"CoastalRes@Cardiff","date":"08\/10\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The group currently is involved in the following research projects. 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