Infrastructure Resiliency: A Risk-Based Framework
This paper provides a framework for the analysis of factors influencing modern transportation systems' ability to anticipate, withstand and recover from disruptions. Such disruptions are becoming increasingly more common, whether caused by natural disasters, structural failures, or human-engineered terrorist events. The factors that contribute to this growing disruption risk include climate change impacts, accelerating growth in the scale of developments in coastal regions, exponential growth in the value of assets lost during catastrophic event, and risks of global connectivity. The author suggests that a risk-based and layered resiliency approach to designing, building, operating and protecting critical infrastructures allow risk factors to be addressed at the systemic level.
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Corporate Authors:
Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
Cambridge, MA United States 02142 -
Authors:
- Barami, Bahar
- Publication Date: 2013-6
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References;
- Pagination: 12p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Infrastructure; Risk assessment; Risk management; Service disruption
- Uncontrolled Terms: Resilience (Adaptability)
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01489985
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: NTL, TRIS, RITA, ATRI, USDOT
- Created Date: Aug 16 2013 11:39AM