摘要: |
Natural disasters often cause a massive loss of
resources in communities due to destruction of
the built environment and interruption of normal
human activities. Over the last few decades,
resilience has been studied diligently to evaluate
damages and performance of infrastructures
suffered by natural and/or man-made hazards.
Researchers, governments, and agencies are
harboring interest over infrastructure resilience.
Critical infrastructure resilience is a major
objective that is being carried out by Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) for more than a
decade. However, few transportation resilience
projects has been considered as an independent
focus of study. In this regard, many models and
frameworks related transportation resilience has
already been developed. However, a
comprehensive model to measure organizational,
economic, social, as well as the technical aspects
of the transportation infrastructures considering
all dimension of resiliency is yet to be developed.
Most public agencies do not have any decisionmaking tool to measure the resilience level of their
transportation infrastructures; hence, they do not
implement resilience enhancement strategies in a
timely manner. This causes costly damages to the
infrastructures which could be avoided. Thus, this
study aims to develop a decision-support tool and
quantitative model which measures the resilience
level of transportation infrastructures and suggest
the best resilience enhancement strategies. |