Simulation Framework for Asset Management in Climate-change Adaptation of Transportation Infrastructure

Bhamidipati, Srirama

doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2015.06.038

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“…(5) Infrastructure damage due to increased storm intensity: During flood events, one of the major impacts on transportation infrastructure is the damage to storm water pipes. According to [60], storm water pipes are designed to balance the hydraulic forces that act inside as well as the earth forces on the top of it. The pipes are installed at a critical depth under the ground which should be stable and inexpensive.…”

Section: Slr Impacts On Roadsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience of Infrastructure Systems to Sea-Level Rise in Coastal Areas: Impacts, Adaptation Measures, and Implementation Challenges

Almeida

Mostafavi

2016

Sustainability

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Expansive areas of low elevation in many densely populated coastal areas are at elevated risk of storm surges and flooding due to torrential precipitation, as a result of sea level rise. These phenomena could have catastrophic impacts on coastal communities and result in the destruction of critical infrastructure, disruption of economic activities and salt water contamination of the water supply. The objective of the study presented in this paper was to identify various impacts of sea level rise on civil infrastructures in coastal areas and examine the adaptation measures suggested in the existing literature. To this end, a systemic review of the existing literature was conducted in order to identify a repository of studies addressing sea level rise impacts and adaptation measures in the context of infrastructure systems. The study focused on three infrastructure sectors: water and wastewater, energy, and road transportation. The collected information was then analyzed in order to identify different categories of sea level rise impacts and corresponding adaptation measures. The findings of the study are threefold: (1) the major categories of sea level rise impacts on different infrastructure systems; (2) measures for protection, accommodation, and retreat in response to sea level rise impacts; and (3) challenges related to implementing adaptation measures.

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Section: Slr Impacts On Roadsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience of Infrastructure Systems to Sea-Level Rise in Coastal Areas: Impacts, Adaptation Measures, and Implementation Challenges

Almeida

Mostafavi

2016

Sustainability

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“…), transportation (Eisenack et al. ; Bhamidipati ; Therrien et al. ; Mostafavi and Inman ; Donovan and Work ), and power (Reed et al.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Over the past several decades, scholars have increasingly focused on infrastructure resiliency including water (Falco and Webb 2015;Mugume et al 2015;Shin et al 2018), transportation (Eisenack et al 2012;Bhamidipati 2015;Therrien et al 2015;Mostafavi and Inman 2016;Donovan and Work 2017), and power (Reed et al 2009;Ouyang et al 2012;Lin and Bie 2016;Panteli and Mancarella 2017). Most studies of infrastructure adaptation efforts to build resilience focus on hard adaptation actions (e.g., digging impoundments, raising equipment).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Marshaling Adaptive Capacities within an Adaptive Management Framework to Enhance the Resiliency of Wastewater Systems

Mullin

Kirchhoff

2018

J American Water Resour Assoc

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We assess adaptive capacity and adaptive management as measures of wastewater (WW) system resiliency using data from interviews with WW system managers (hereafter managers) impacted by past storms. Results suggest the most resilient WW systems are those with high adaptive capacities that employ an adaptive management approach to make ongoing adaptation investments over time. Greater amounts of generic adaptive capacities (i.e., skilled staff and good leadership) help smooth both day‐to‐day and emergency operations and provide a foundation for adaptive management. In turn, adaptive management helps managers both build more generic adaptive capacities, and develop and employ greater amounts and diversity of specific adaptive capacities (i.e., soft and/or hard adaptations) that are especially important for enhancing and sustaining resiliency. Adaptive management also enables managers to better understand their system's vulnerabilities, how those vulnerabilities change over time, and what specific actions may reduce those vulnerabilities. Finally, our work suggests WW system resilience critically depends on the capacities of the human systems for building resilience as much as or more so than relying only on physical infrastructure resilience. Our work contributes to filling an important gap in the literature by advancing our understanding of the human dimensions of infrastructure resilience and has practical implications for advancing resilience in the WW sector.

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“…First because even if we stop emitting today, the greenhouse gases that have already accumulated in the atmosphere will continue to cause global warming for an extended period of time. Second, the impacts of sea-level rise directly threaten the functionality and performance of roadway networks (Bhamidipati 2014a).…”

Section: Sea-level Rise and Roadway Infrastructure: State Of Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nonetheless, roadway infrastructure systems are interconnected networks in which damage to part of the network will affect the performance of the entire network (Bhamidipati 2014a). Each of these three gaps is discussed in further detail in the rest of this section.…”

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Exploratory Assessment of Roadway Infrastructure Adaptation to the Impacts of Sea-level Rise

Batouli¹

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Transportation agencies in coastal urban areas face a significant challenge to enhance the long-term resilience of their networks to flooding and storm surge events exacerbated by sea level rise. The problem of sea-level rise adaptation is characterized by deep uncertainty that makes it complex to assess the value of adaptation investments. To enable informed adaptation decisions, the present study created a dynamic stochastic modeling framework based on the theoretical underpinnings of complex adaptive systems that integrates: (i) stochastic simulation of sea-level rise stressors based on the data obtained from downscaled climate studies pertaining to future projections of sea-level and precipitation; (ii) dynamic modeling of roadway conditions by considering regular decay of roadways, as well as structural damages caused by storm surge events; and (iii) a decision-theoretic modeling of agency infrastructure management and adaptation processes based on cognitive psychology, bounded rationality, and regret theories. In this framework, resilience is examined based on trend changes in the network performance measures (e.g., life cycle costs and performance). The created framework and model were tested in a case study iv related to the road network of the city of Miami-Beach, which global assessments rank first among the world's urban areas most exposed to sea-level rise risks. The results indicated that: (i) SLR Adaptation investment and life cycle costs of roadway infrastructure are negatively correlated. In addition, it was shown that the sensitivity of network's life cycle cost to actual sea-level rise scenario decreases when adaptation investment increases. These finding emphasize the importance of proactive improvement of the network resilience to alleviate the long-term costs of sea-level rise. (ii) When funding is sufficient for all required adaptation actions, mid-term adaptation planning yields lower life cycle cost. When funding is insufficient, aggregated investment in long-term adaptation planning intervals yields lower network LCC. These findings imply that different adaptation planning approaches should be taken for different levels of adaptation investment. (iii) The agency's perception of SLR and risk attitude do not have significant effect on life cycle cost of roadway networks. Hence, implementation of adaptation action based on any perception of sea-level rise and risk attitude can significantly reduce the life cycle costs of roadway networks under the impacts of SLR. (iv) The devised performance target has negative correlation with life cycle cost of a roadway network affected by SLR impacts.Therefore, compromising the network performance condition will never result in lower life cycle costs.

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Simulation Framework for Asset Management in Climate-change Adaptation of Transportation Infrastructure

Cited by 19 publications

References 17 publications

Resilience of Infrastructure Systems to Sea-Level Rise in Coastal Areas: Impacts, Adaptation Measures, and Implementation Challenges

Resilience of Infrastructure Systems to Sea-Level Rise in Coastal Areas: Impacts, Adaptation Measures, and Implementation Challenges

Marshaling Adaptive Capacities within an Adaptive Management Framework to Enhance the Resiliency of Wastewater Systems

Exploratory Assessment of Roadway Infrastructure Adaptation to the Impacts of Sea-level Rise

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