An Interactive Digital Tool for the Appraisal & Planning of Interventions to Enhance the Resilience of Transport Networks

Funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce (USA), this project focuses on developing an online tool that will strengthen America’s infrastructure focused on transportation lifeline systems by allowing users to optimize investments in enhancing the seismic and climate resilience and recovery time of highways.

The digital tool will include the following modules:

1) Hazard/Vulnerability and Risk Assessments
2) Loss estimates: Direct (i.e. loss of property) and Indirect (i.e. loss of revenue due to failure or unavailability) using state-of-the-art modelling of traffic disruption and network reinstatement
3) Quantification of the resilience of the infrastructure using standardized procedures (e.g. FHWA’s resilience scorecard or NIST’s functional recovery framework) adapted to the specific infrastructure type/examined region
4) Risk minimization through resilience planning at the system and system-of-systems level (i.e. a highway network interacting with secondary routes or Interstate interacting with state highways
5) Optimization of investments in resilience using advanced multi-criteria algorithms (i.e decisions on where and how to invest accounting for the probability of occurrence of several events and their consequences on businesses and infrastructure availability)