Continuing Challenges in Transportation Adaptation

Savonis, Michael J.; Potter, Joanne; Snow, Cassandra

doi:10.1007/s40518-014-0004-7

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“…Reliability assessments contribute toward technical resilience, but reliability is not enough to ensure resilience to low-probability high-consequence events (Stockton 2014, Panteli andMancarella 2015). Because of an increase in severe weather events due to climate change, the resilience of technologies already deployed should be monitored (Savonis et al 2014) to harden or reinforce existing infrastructure and modernize aging infrastructure to withstand severe climate events (Panteli and Mancarella 2015), and reliability design criteria for infrastructure should be revised to cater for new extremes.…”

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A framework for conceptualizing and assessing the resilience of essential services produced by socio-technical systems

Merwe¹,

Biggs²,

Preiser³

2018

E&S

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ABSTRACT. Essential services such as electricity are critical to human well-being and the functioning of modern society. These services are produced by complex adaptive socio-technical systems and emerge from the interplay of technical infrastructure with people and governing institutions. Ongoing global changes such as urbanization and increasing prevalence of extreme weather events are generating much interest in strategies for building the resilience of essential services. However, much of the emphasis has been on reliable and resilient technical infrastructure. This focus is insufficient; resilience also needs to be built into the human and institutional processes within which these technical systems are embedded. Here, we propose a conceptual framework, based on a complex adaptive systems perspective, that identifies four key domains that require investment to build the resilience of essential services. This framework addresses both the technical and social components of the socio-technical systems that underlie essential services and incorporates specified and general resilience considerations. The framework can be used to guide resilience assessments and to identify strategies for building resilience across different organizational levels.

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Section: Assessing Specified Technical Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

A framework for conceptualizing and assessing the resilience of essential services produced by socio-technical systems

Merwe¹,

Biggs²,

Preiser³

2018

E&S

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“…This can be a challenging task for engineers due to the uncertainty of SLC projections as well as differing guidelines and recommendations for managing SLC, especially at the local level (Becker, Toilliez & Mitchell, 2015). Furthermore, incorporating SLC considerations in port engineering structures is especially critical, as these projects tend to have long working lifespans, in some case exceeding 100 years (Savonis, Potter & Snow, 2014).…”

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Designing Port Infrastucture for Sea Level Change: A Survey of Engineers

Sweeney¹,

Becker²

2018

Int. Conf. Coastal. Eng.

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This work will implement an online survey to gauge the North American port and marine infrastructure engineering communityâ€™s attitude and approach to planning for sea level change (SLC) for large-scale port engineering projects in their practice. Results will identify how engineers consider SLC in the design of marine infrastructure and address such questions as: For which types of projects do port and marine infrastructure engineers incorporate SLC considerations into their design? Where does the incentive to add a SLC design component to a project originate from? What levels of SLC do port and marine infrastructure engineers design for? How do the lifespan expectations and time horizons of maritime projects affect SLC considerations? Answers to these questions will provide baseline data that can be used to determine the role that the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and others can play to best provide assistance to the engineering community, as well as for tracking how firms change their approach to incorporating SLC into their designs over time.

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“…Infrastructure construction takes years to plan, design, and build. Often outliving its 30-50-year design life, much port infrastructure built today will likely continue to function at the end of the century [4]. Climate change over the next century could force multiple adaptations in many locations [5].…”

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“…Climate change over the next century could force multiple adaptations in many locations [5]. To plan in advance, government and port authorities need to implement strategies to protect infrastructure for future environmental conditions [4] as well as forecast the cost and demand of necessary construction [5].…”

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Cost and Materials Required to Retrofit US Seaports in Response to Sea Level Rise: A Thought Exercise for Climate Response

Becker

Hippe²,

Mclean

2017

JMSE

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Climate changes projected for 2100 and beyond could result in a worldwide race for adaptation resources on a scale never seen before. This paper describes a model for estimating the cost and materials of elevating coastal seaport infrastructure in the United States to prevent damage from sea level rise associated with climate change. This study pilots the use of a generic port model (GenPort) as a basis from which to estimate regional materials and monetary demands, resulting in projections that would be infeasible to calculate on an individual port-by-port basis. We estimate the combined cost of adding two meters of additional fill material to elevate the working surface and then reconstructing the generic port. We use the resulting unit area cost to develop an estimate to elevate and retrofit 100 major United States commercial coastal ports. A total of $57 billion to $78 billion (2012 US dollars) and 704 million cubic meters of fill would be required to elevate the 100 ports by two meters and to reconstruct associated infrastructure. This estimation method and the results serve as a thought exercise to provoke considerations of the cumulative monetary and material demands of widespread adaptations of seaport infrastructure. The model can be adapted for use in multiple infrastructure sectors and coastal managers can use the outlined considerations as a basis for individual port adaptation strategy assessments.

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Continuing Challenges in Transportation Adaptation

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

A framework for conceptualizing and assessing the resilience of essential services produced by socio-technical systems

A framework for conceptualizing and assessing the resilience of essential services produced by socio-technical systems

Designing Port Infrastucture for Sea Level Change: A Survey of Engineers

Cost and Materials Required to Retrofit US Seaports in Response to Sea Level Rise: A Thought Exercise for Climate Response

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