Infrastructure resilience: From concept to performance to decisions

McNeil, Sue; Liu, YuanChi; Ramirez-Villamizar, A.S.

doi:10.1201/9781351063265-67

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“…While the disruption caused by flooding is of significance to any individual household, the overall consequences in relation to disruption and delay is relatively minor. A life-cycle cost analysis clearly indicated that several alternatives were economically desirable ( 80 ). This example illustrates the limitations of resilience and the importance of connecting performance measures to life-cycle cost.…”

Section: Enhancing the Integration Of Asset Management And Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Using Resilience in Risk-Based Asset Management Plans

Liu

McNeil

2020

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Each state in the U.S.A. is required to develop and maintain a risk-based transportation asset management plan for the National Highway System (NHS) to improve or preserve the condition of the assets and the performance of the system. Awareness of natural hazards and extreme weather events has also increased with recent catastrophic hurricanes, such as Matthew (October, 2016) and Harvey (August, 2017), which caused significant inland floods in Robeson County, North Carolina, and Houston, Texas, respectively. These recent events and the damage to transportation infrastructure has also focused attention on the resilience of transportation networks. However, an integrated, consistent, well-understood method to assess or quantify the resilience of transportation networks is still lacking. This paper reviews the relevant concepts, legislative requirements that link asset management, risk and resilience, and tools available to support risk-based asset management. Based on a review of the transportation asset management plans developed by 49 state departments of transportation in 2018 and 2019, the paper summarizes the approaches to the risk management section of these asset management plans and the role resilience plays. Opportunities to better integrate resilience into the risk-based asset management plans are then identified. Examples are presented that demonstrate the role of resilience-related technical performance measures that reflect decisions related to flooding in the various stages of the disaster cycle (preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation).

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Section: Enhancing the Integration Of Asset Management And Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%