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Title:

Adaptation Planning for Climate-Resilient Urban Infrastructure

Accession Number:

01628857

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

The emergence of climate-induced-weather-events has provoked a new class of modeling to provide the vulnerable infrastructures with climate-adaptive, resilient platforms. While adaptation planning is inevitable to neutralize the aftermath of climate-change-induced hazards, quantitative approaches have been less practiced in real-size case studies. Taking on this challenge, the authors investigate a planning response to enhance the resilience of transportation network in the face of random arrival of 100- and 500-year flooding episodes. Modeling the interdependency between fuel supply-chain and transportation infrastructures, the proposed approach investigates the transportation network’s maximum performance by enhancing the robustness of fuel supply-chain in time of disaster. The model features a multi-stage mathematical program. The first stage which is an asset allocation model, investigates the optimum investing portfolio by propositioning assets a priori of hazards. Within the second stage, variables are conditioned on the decisions made through the first stage, and seek the transportation system’s overall resilience: minimum unmet travel demand and maximum fuel accessibility in the aftermath of extreme events. The proposed model illustrates how to allocate resources proactively and how the transportation network’s post-disaster operability could be protected by a resilient motor fuel supply-chain infrastructure. Results also emphasize on the importance of an integrated planning approach where a higher degree of resilience aligned with less costly resilience-enhancing strategies is expected through smart allocation of resources across the infrastructure’s elements.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee A0020T Special Task Force on Climate Change and Energy.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-06809

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

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Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Beheshtian, Arash
Donaghy, Kieran P
Geddes, R Richard
Rouhani, Omid M

Pagination:

18p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General)

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-06809

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 12:48PM