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Title:

Toward More Resilient Airport Infrastructure: Measurement Methods, Influencing Mechanisms, and Response Strategies

Accession Number:

01662677

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

As a relatively independent transportation infrastructure, the resilience of airports to emergency events significantly affects the resilience of the transportation network in which the airport is the hub. However, studies of the measurement indices and influencing factors of airport resilience are still at an exploratory stage. In response, this paper develops an index system for measuring the resilience of large airports to emergency events starting from the two levels of vulnerability and emergency response capability of airside and landside subsystems. Its use is then demonstrated in a case study of Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA) from 2000 to 2015, with set pair analysis also being used to identify the main factors involved and reveal their influencing mechanism and patterns. This allows the annual BCIA vulnerability index, emergency response capability index and resilience index to be steadily tracked and examined for trends, confirming that BCIA’s resilience has improved over the period and is the result of the interaction between vulnerability and emergency response capability; vulnerability and resilience are mostly affected by the landside system; total emergency response capability has a decisive role in determining resilience, with the scale of hardware infrastructure and investment in safety management having a prominent role in improving emergency response capability; and the existence of a variety of influence curves for the resilience index. The system also helped reveal that the mechanism, nature and rates that affect system resilience differ across different stages and different factors.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AV090 Standing Committee on Aviation Security and Emergency Management.

Report/Paper Numbers:

18-01165

Language:

English

Authors:

Bao, Danwen
Gu, Jiayu

Pagination:

23p

Publication Date:

2018

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2018-1-7 to 2018-1-11
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies; Terminals and Facilities

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-01165

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 8 2018 10:17AM