Multimodal Transportation Facility Resilience Index

A new paradigm for complex systems performance and maintenance decision making is developing in the form of resilience engineering. Depending on the subject area, different definitions of resilience exist. This project will adopt a definition appropriate for resilience in transportation systems: the ability of the system to recover and adapt to external shocks, which include natural, intentional and technogenic disasters and failure due to poor designs. These disturbances can ultimately affect the smooth and efficient operation of systems and may demand a shift of process, strategies and/or coordination. In most cases, transportation facilities are interconnected and the analyses should consider properties of this strong interdependency. These interdependencies and uncertainties of multimodal transportation facilities are addressed through the development of a resilience index in this project. Development of this index will be formulated by addressing the following: What aspect of the system should be resilient? To what kind of change would we like the system to be resilient to? What variables are changing? How fast are the variables moving from threshold levels? Is the system resilient to external shocks (natural or artificial) or to technogenic disasters? Finally, the project will employ probabilistic graphical models to develop multimodal transportation facility index.

• Record URL:
  http://www.matsutc.org/multimodal-transportation-facility-resilience-index/

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $354700.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTRT13-G-UTC33

• Sponsor Organizations:

  University of Virginia, Charlottesville

  Center for Transportation Studies
  P.O. Box 400742, Thornton Hall, D228
  Charlottesville, VA  United States  22903

  University of Delaware, Newark

  Department of Civil Engineering
  301 DuPont Hall
  Newark, DE  United States  19716

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  University Transportation Centers Program
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Parkany, Emily

• Performing Organizations:

  University of Virginia, Charlottesville

  Center for Transportation Studies
  P.O. Box 400742, Thornton Hall, D228
  Charlottesville, VA  United States  22903

  University of Delaware, Newark

  College of Engineering
  Newark, DE  United States  19711
• Principal Investigators:

  Burden, Lindsay

  Attoh-Okine, Nii

• Start Date: 20141001
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20161231
• Source Data: RiP Project 37254

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Disaster preparedness; Disasters and emergency operations; Multimodal transportation; Resilience (Materials); Safety; Terrorism
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01566135
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Mid-Atlantic Transportation Sustainability Center
• Contract Numbers: DTRT13-G-UTC33
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jun 11 2015 1:01AM