Building Resilience into Freight Transportation Systems: Actions for State Departments of Transportation

The management of transportation systems for resilience has received significant attention in recent years. Resilience planning concerns the actions of an organization that reduce the consequences of a disruption to the system the organization manages. Little exploration has been made into the connections between resilience planning and the actions of a state department of transportation (DOT) that contribute to resilience of a freight transportation system. Conclusions are presented from collaborative research between the Washington State DOT Freight Systems Division (WSDOT FSD) and researchers at the University of Washington. Activities of the WSDOT FSD that contribute to resilience are identified, and one such activity undertaken by WSDOT to improve communication with system users is described. This and other activities can be undertaken by other DOTs that want to improve the resilience of their freight transportation systems at relatively low cost.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.3141/2168-15
• Summary URL:
  http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Building+Resilience+into+Freight+Transportation+Systems%3a+Actions+for+State+Departments+of+Transportation&author=C.+Ta&author=A.+Goodchild&author=B.+Ivanov&publication_year=2010
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• Authors:
  • Ta, Chilan
  • Goodchild, Anne V
  • Ivanov, Barbara
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 129-135
• Monograph Title: Freight Transportation Modeling, Planning, and Logistics
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 2168
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communications; Freight transportation; Planning; State departments of transportation; Transportation system management
• Uncontrolled Terms: Disruptions; Resilience (Adaptability)
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01158423
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309160377
• Report/Paper Numbers: 10-3226
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 7 2010 9:58AM