An Innovative Approach to Solve the Network Design Problem Concerning Intelligent Vulnerabilities
In today’s congested transportation networks, disturbances like crashes may cause unexpected and significant delays. All transportation networks are vulnerable to disruptions, to some extent, with temporary or permanent effects. Vulnerability is more important in urban transportation networks, due to heavy use and road segments that are close to each other. Small disturbances on an urban transportation network segment can have a huge impact on its accessibility. Intelligent adversaries may take advantage of these vulnerable parts of the network in order to disrupt the transportation operations, and increase the overall transportation cost for the users. Often, the decision of improving the networks in transportation planning and management tasks are made without adequately taking into account the possible vulnerabilities. By considering the factor of vulnerability in their decision, planners could prevent severe unforeseen disruptions in the future. This study proposes an innovative model for designing robust networks against intelligent attackers. In the model, three decision makers are considered: the network manager/designer, the adversary (intelligent attacker) and the users of the network. Numerical experiments were conducted, and the results proved the potential benefits of the proposed model
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABR10 Standing Committee on Critical Transportation Infrastructure Protection. Alternate title: Innovative Approach to Solve the Network Design Problem Concerning Intelligent Vulnerabilities
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Authors:
- Higgs, B
- Naimi, A
- Gkolias, M M
- Mishra, S
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
- Date: 2016
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References;
- Pagination: 19p
- Monograph Title: TRB 95th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Highway design; Network analysis (Planning); Networks; Risk assessment; Service disruption; Traffic incidents; Urban highways
- Uncontrolled Terms: Network design; Robust planning
- Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01590084
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 16-6805
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Feb 10 2016 9:43AM