The increasing number of disruptions to critical infrastructure, like natural disasters, terrorist attacks or internal failure is today a major problem of society. Concern is even greater when considering the interconnected nature of critical infrastructure, which might lead to failure propagation, causing domino and cascade effects. To mitigate such outcomes, critical infrastructure must recover its capacity to function with regard to several criteria. Stakeholders must therefore analyse and improve the resilience of critical infrastructure before any disruption occurs, and base this analysis on different models so as to guarantee society's vital needs. Current resilience assessment methods are mainly oriented toward the context of a single system, thus narrowing their criteria metrics, limiting flexibility and adaptation to other contexts and overlooking the interconnected nature of systems. This article introduces a new tool-equipped approach that makes it possible to define a model to evaluate the functionalities of interconnected systems. The model is then used to assess the resilience of these systems based on simple and generic criteria that can be extended and adapted. Several assertions related to the concept of resilience and some resilience indicators are also introduced. A case study provides the validation performed by experts from several domains.

Currently, over 90% of goods are transported by road terrestrial mode. To progress, companies of Road Freight Transport sector (RFT) are subject to a number of issues, whether economic, regulatory, environmental, societal, occupational health and safety ... The planner has a crucial role in achieving these challenges, it is he who undertakes the construction method of the tours, for the future of the company. Thus he bears a heavy responsibility on his shoulders. Its ability to integrate the company's constraints and to master the balance between these issues in the construction of tour is vital. However a list of risks is potentialy present and can affecte his planning. This lack of vision about risks impact prevents him to achieve his mission. Thus we propose in this article a mean to qualify the tours generated in relation to the issues mentioned but also in terms of potential hazards that could come impair the quality of tours. In this article, we propose an evaluation process of road transport of goods tours and an indicator to measure the robustness of touring.

Faced with an increasing level of disruption from natural disasters, terrorist attacks or internal failures, organisations need to ensure their business continuity. Ensuring this continuity depends, among other things, on the continuous assessment, monitoring, and management of their resilience based on the variations of the functionalities. Resilience-assessment methodologies are nowadays used to (1) prepare stakeholders for future crisis management situations and (2) help stakeholders assess past levels of resilience in the aftermath of the crisis. However, continuous, real-time monitoring and assessment of resilience is generally either outside the scope of such methods or limited to raw data representation, lacking effective filtering, interpretation, or integration in the evolving context of the organisation's activities. This paper enhances previous works on resilience assessment. The result is a complementary methodology for continuous, real-time resilience assessment and monitoring based on multiple data-sources and stakeholders. The novelty is (1) in the context of use of the methodology, (2) in the way the functionality analysis model is obtained and (3) in the way the resilience is continuously assessed.

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