Transportation network vulnerability analysis for the case of a catastrophic earthquake

Vulnerability and resilience of transport systems – A discussion of recent research

“…Murray et al (2008) and Wang et al (2014a,b) provide thorough methodological overviews. Heckmann et al (2015) complement these overviews by reviewing supply chain vulnerability studies and Khademi et al (2015) by reviewing vulnerability studies in the perspective of their usefulness for disaster risk reduction. We will restrict our review to a selection of recent research of particular interest from a methodological or application point of view; some classical examples will also be discussed briefly.…”

“…While there is a substantial literature on transport system vulnerability, as our selective review has indicated, the literature on transport system resilience is less extensive. This is evident from Faturechi and Miller-Hooks' (2014) comprehensive overview of transport infrastructure system performance during disasters (see also Khademi et al, 2015). The authors find a large body of research on assessment of critical components in the transport systems (vulnerability studies) but much less on disaster management.…”

“…They then formulate a mathematical model for optimising recovery activities after a disaster to maximise the resilience of the intermodal network subject to budget constraints. Khademi et al (2015) present a recent study that is particularly interesting because of its comprehensive approach to transport network vulnerability/resilience analysis for the case of a catastrophic event. They notice that most transport vulnerability studies deal with the pre-hazard phase and most often only consider a single link failure.…”

“…For the research to be more generally applied in practice, it is in the authors' opinion necessary to strengthen the cross-disciplinary collaborations with responsible authorities, operators and other stakeholders for mutual learning and transferring of knowledge. The earthquake study by Khademi et al (2015) and some international studies on climate change impacts on the transport system may be role models in this respect (e.g., National Research Council, 2008; the EU projects WEATHER and MOWE-IT). 9 Without such transdisciplinary activities the full potential of the research reviewed in this article may not be achieved.…”

Estimating road network accessibility during a hurricane evacuation: A case study of hurricane Irma in Florida

“…For example, Duan & Lu (2014) used this method to simulate hypothetical attacks in six cities by successively removing nodes from the abstract network. In contrast, the system-based approach is more widely used in analyses concerning specified natural hazard scenarios such as flooding and earthquakes (Suarez et al, 2005;Sohn, 2006;Khademi et al, 2015).…”