Emergence of resilience as a framework for state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) in the United States

State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) in the United States are responsible for a large portfolio of transportation modes and services, including passenger and freight systems. These responsibilities include operations under routine conditions and during incidents and events that result from various natural and human-caused hazards. During unexpected events, disruptions and reductions in service result in requiring the reallocation and reassignment of personnel, modal, and economic resources. To better prevent and respond to the effects of service disruptions, the concept of resilience has emerged as an important framework, within which, DOTs across the United States are using to plan for the occurrence of threats. In this paper, the key findings of recent reviews of literature and practice related to resilience among state DOTs in the United States are summarized. The review effort focused on a range of risks faced by transportation agencies including climate change, terrorism, cyber-attacks, and aging infrastructure and the ways in which DOTs are confronting them in practice. The topics of this paper range from the fundamental, including definitions of transportation resilience; to the more complex such as examinations of risk, vulnerability and threats; to the most sophisticated topics including administrative-level efforts to conceptualize evolving transportation planning and policies within a resilience framework.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2019.11.007
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361920918309519
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  • © 2019 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Renne, John
  • Wolshon, Brian
  • Murray-Tuite, Pamela
  • 0000-0003-3079-289X
  • Pande, Anurag
  • 0000-0002-3456-7932
• Publication Date: 2020-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References;
• Pagination: 102178
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
  • Volume: 82
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1361-9209
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13619209

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Climate change; Disaster resilience; Infrastructure; Resource allocation; Risk assessment; State departments of transportation; Terrorism
• Candidate Terms: Cyber attacks
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01724839
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 10 2019 5:12PM