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Title:

An Innovative Approach to Solve the Network Design Problem Concerning Intelligent Vulnerabilities

Accession Number:

01590084

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

In today’s congested transportation networks, disturbances like crashes may cause unexpected and significant delays. All transportation networks are vulnerable to disruptions, to some extent, with temporary or permanent effects. Vulnerability is more important in urban transportation networks, due to heavy use and road segments that are close to each other. Small disturbances on an urban transportation network segment can have a huge impact on its accessibility. Intelligent adversaries may take advantage of these vulnerable parts of the network in order to disrupt the transportation operations, and increase the overall transportation cost for the users. Often, the decision of improving the networks in transportation planning and management tasks are made without adequately taking into account the possible vulnerabilities. By considering the factor of vulnerability in their decision, planners could prevent severe unforeseen disruptions in the future. This study proposes an innovative model for designing robust networks against intelligent attackers. In the model, three decision makers are considered: the network manager/designer, the adversary (intelligent attacker) and the users of the network. Numerical experiments were conducted, and the results proved the potential benefits of the proposed model

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABR10 Standing Committee on Critical Transportation Infrastructure Protection. Alternate title: Innovative Approach to Solve the Network Design Problem Concerning Intelligent Vulnerabilities

Monograph Accession #:

01584066

Report/Paper Numbers:

16-6805

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Higgs, B
Naimi, A
Gkolias, M M
Mishra, S

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2016

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References

Uncontrolled Terms:

Network design; Robust planning

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-6805

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 12 2016 6:57PM