Resilience of Transport Infrastructure Systems

Resilience of Electricity Infrastructure

2. Resilience is not achieved by picking off and solving individual problems but results from the inter-play of all the multiple inter-related components and factors that form the whole electricity system. The lessons that can be learnt from the last period when electricity resilience was an issue, the 3 day week in the 1970s, are of limited value in the current context because both the underly...

Time-dependent resilience assessment and improvement of urban infrastructure systems.

This paper introduces an approach to assess and improve the time-dependent resilience of urban infrastructure systems, where resilience is defined as the systems' ability to resist various possible hazards, absorb the initial damage from hazards, and recover to normal operation one or multiple times during a time period T. For different values of T and its position relative to current time, the...

Resilience of Transportation Infrastructure Systems : Quantification and Optimization

Title of Document: RESILIENCE OF TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS: QUANTIFICATION AND OPTIMIZATION Reza Faturechi, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Directed By: Professor, Elise Miller-Hooks, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Transportation systems are critical lifelines for society, but are at risk from natural or human-caused hazards. To prevent significant loss from disaster e...

Operational models of infrastructure resilience.

We propose a definition of infrastructure resilience that is tied to the operation (or function) of an infrastructure as a system of interacting components and that can be objectively evaluated using quantitative models. Specifically, for any particular system, we use quantitative models of system operation to represent the decisions of an infrastructure operator who guides the behavior of the ...

Critical Thinking: Moving from Infrastructure Protection to Infrastructure Resilience CIPP Discussion Paper Series Resilience: A Systems Design Imperative