Resilience assessment of transportation infrastructure is a crucial aspect of ensuring the continued functionality of a city or region in the face of various disruptions.However,these infrastructures are also vulnerab...Resilience assessment of transportation infrastructure is a crucial aspect of ensuring the continued functionality of a city or region in the face of various disruptions.However,these infrastructures are also vulnerable to various types of disruptions,such as natural disasters.The ability of transportation infrastructures to withstand and recover from such disruptions is referred to as their resilience.This research presents a comprehensive framework to develop the resilience surface for assessing the resilience of transportation infrastructure such as bridges,roads,and tunnels.The framework involves the identification of the unique damage configurations through performing the fragility analysis,and the restoration of the infrastructures through developing recovery curves for each damage configuration by considering the relevant restoration data.The framework also considers the inherent uncertainty in the hazard intensity,modeling uncertainty,and restoration process.The framework is illustrated through the application to a case study of a highway bridge in Canada.The aim of this paper is to provide a useful tool for decision-makers to evaluate and improve the resilience of transportation infrastructures.展开更多
文摘Resilience assessment of transportation infrastructure is a crucial aspect of ensuring the continued functionality of a city or region in the face of various disruptions.However,these infrastructures are also vulnerable to various types of disruptions,such as natural disasters.The ability of transportation infrastructures to withstand and recover from such disruptions is referred to as their resilience.This research presents a comprehensive framework to develop the resilience surface for assessing the resilience of transportation infrastructure such as bridges,roads,and tunnels.The framework involves the identification of the unique damage configurations through performing the fragility analysis,and the restoration of the infrastructures through developing recovery curves for each damage configuration by considering the relevant restoration data.The framework also considers the inherent uncertainty in the hazard intensity,modeling uncertainty,and restoration process.The framework is illustrated through the application to a case study of a highway bridge in Canada.The aim of this paper is to provide a useful tool for decision-makers to evaluate and improve the resilience of transportation infrastructures.
