Towards Integrating Resilience into Everyday Transportation Practices of Coastal and River Valley Communities

Coastal and river valley communities have become increasingly vulnerable to sea level rise and other disasters which can disrupt transportation systems. Therefore, it is important for these systems to be resilient. Analyzing the resilience of transportation systems is important for practitioners and decision makers to identify weaknesses within the network and analyze design alternatives that can improve resilience. Even though research has been conducted in the area of resilience, integrating this concept into everyday transportation practices to prepare for disasters and other disruptions (e.g. inclement weather, traffic incidents, road blockages) remains a challenge. The goal of this research was to advance the state-of-the-art in transportation activities to integrate resilience into traffic analyses to assist coastal and river valley communities in their resilience practices. This study demonstrated the use of resilience methods and metrics in the analysis of a crash which blocked a segment of a coastal freeway modeled using microscopic traffic simulation. The study demonstrated the use of resilience metrics and methods which advances the next steps for future research to develop new or enhanced tools and methods that can be transferred to coastal and river valley communities for their resilience practices.

• Dataset URL:
  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4746628
• Record URL:
  https://martrec.uark.edu/research/completedprojects/lsu_toward_final_acc.pdf
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/59885
• Dataset URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/61851
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program. Supporting datasets available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4746628; https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/61851
• Corporate Authors:

  Maritime Transportation Research and Education Center (MarTREC)

  University of Arkansas
  4190 Bell Engineering Center
  Fayetteville, AR  United States  72701

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Herrera, Nelida
  • Wolshon, Brian
  • 0000-0002-1703-2995
  • Shapouri, Mohammad
  • Shoojat, Siavash
• Publication Date: 2021-3-31

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Research Report
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 30p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Coastal zone management; Coasts; Disaster preparedness; Disaster resilience; Lane closure; Metrics (Quantitative assessment); Rivers; Sea level; Traffic simulation
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01771687
• Record Type: Publication
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747130
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: May 21 2021 10:54AM